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The causes that produce paralysis are 

 many and varied, and the removal of the 

 cause will generally effect a cure. In cases 

 of severe injury to the organs affected, 

 however, recovery is often doubtful, and in 

 some cases the result is death or perma- 

 nent disability. Healthy, vigorous animals 

 are seldom afflicted with paralysis, unless 

 it arises from injury, and, except the injury 

 be serious, they have vitality sufficient to 

 speedily throw off the trouble ; but when 

 the frame is enfeebled by disease or lack 

 of proper food and care, even apparently 

 slight attacks are often disastrous in result. 



Puppies, when teething, are often sub- 

 ject to partial or complete paralysis of the 

 hinder parts, especially if they are not in a 

 healthy condition. A tendency to these 

 attacks is induced by their feverish state, 

 and often by the presence of inflammation in 

 the tissues that are adjacent to the nerves 

 or spinal cord. 



As a sequence to distemper, an attack of 



