Medicine: Distemper Cure?

Just as there is no cure for epilepsy, there is none for distemper, scourge of dogs. Almost all have it at some time, but those that have it badly, even if they do not die, are generally done for. Blinded, paralyzed or twisted, they can only find a spot in a stable-yard and wait for death. Hard is the lot of yellow alley-dogs, which often have no place to go; they must drag themselves about from corner to corner, pushing a pair of useless front legs or perhaps pulling their bodies behind them like...

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