INFECTIOUS BRONCHIAL CATARRH. BENCH SHOW DISTEMPER.
Under this name Glass describes an affection, milder than the usual distemper, but showing similar lesions and demanding an equivalent treatment. It is not self-limiting the same patient having suffered twice in the same year (an occurrence which is occasionally seen in distemper.) The incubation is 3 to 5 days. Diarrhœa is invariably present from the first, and the fæces slimy and at the end of a week slightly bloody. The affection is characterized by the predominance of the digestive disorder, the absence of skin eruption, the free shedding of the hair in long coated animals, the ulceration of the gums, tongue and lips, and the low mortality.
Bacteriological research must be invoked to determine whether this is only a form of distemper or if it is one of a group of diseases which have hitherto been known by that name.