We are restricted to the above title, because we cannot conclude within reason that the disease definitely conformed either to human measles or to scarlatina. As will appear later, the earlier phases resembled measles and the succeeding ones scarlatina, particularly in the extensive desquamation, which was the most picturesque feature of the case. The animal was tractable and easy to examine, and was the same animal in which scabies was described in a preceding paper.1 This is the chronology of the case:
July 3, 1922: The animal's appetite became poor and the stools were loose.
July 5: She became depressed, and the skin became warmer than normal. There were no râles in the chest, but noises indicating mucus in the nose could be heard—yet there was no discharge. There was no pharyngitis. A scattered, shotty, papular eruption was present over the more glabrous parts of the face, on the