Show Distemper Is Disease Gammon Common Among Horses Distemper Is a disease common In colts and young oung horses It Is fused by pus producing germs which usually gain entrance Into the upper air pas sages and cause inflammation and dis- dis charge From the upper air passa es esthey s they are transferred to the l kernels ernes under the jaw these kernels become become be- be come the seat of an abscess The germs however may enter through wounds or even through the walls of the intestines or other mucous mem- mem branes FIr this reason colts never ne-er should be castrated when they are exposed exposed ex- ex posed distemper infection Distemper usually Is confined o 0 mucous mu mu- com membranes of the nose and ani throat and the other I mph lymph nodes belonging be- be longing to these parts part The disease usually runs Its course In two or three weeks In some cases however Infection becomes localized In other parts of the Ody and may cause nb- nb sc ses on the belly or the chest Tendon Tendon Ten Ten- don sheaths or joints also may become become be- be come Infected and kin eruptions may even make nn an appearance Cases a es In which there are abscesses In inaccessible sible places are hopeless Animals which recover reCO seldom regain regain re- re gain their full measure of health |