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20-lb. to 40-lb. weight, one pill twice a day with his food. Small 

 dogs, half a pill. St. Bernards, one and one-half pills as a dose. 



"It is necessary in chorea to continue the use of these remedies for a 

 considerable time — at least a month or two months, in most cases — to 

 produce any satisfactory result, or even to give them a fair trial; and, as 

 before said, the dog must be carefully fed, well lodged and properly exer- 

 cised when he has sufficient power to use his limps, and in the case of dogs 

 reared in towns, a change to the country for some weeks would be beneficial. 

 Galvanism has been recommended for chorea; I have not seen it tried, but 

 should think it well worth a trial." 



Here are two different cases of chorea prescribed for by the American 

 Field: 



"About two months since I bred a young pug bitch, and shortly after- 

 ward I noticed a nervous affection in her face; just about as regular as 

 a clock would tick the lower jaw would drop and raise again, and for a while 

 her tongue would hang out at one side as if partially paralyzed. "What is 

 the probable cause, and what treatment should she have? She did not 

 whelp, and this was her first mating. Ans. — Chorea; give two drops of 

 Fowler's Solution of Arsenic three times daily for six consecutive days, then 

 increase the dose one drop daily until fifteen drops are given at each and 

 every dose; continue this for one week, then decrease in the same raitio. 



"Please prescribe for my English setter bitch that has had, for the 

 last two months, a severe jerking in her fore legs, seeming to be worse, 

 in damp weather; otherwise she is apparently in good health. The bitch 

 had the distemper about two or three months ago. Ans. — Chorea. For 

 ten consecutive days give ten grains of iodide of potash three times daily, 

 then give six drops of Fowler's Solution three times daily for seven con- 

 secutive days, and on the eighth day increase the dose one drop daily 

 until thirty drops are given at each and every dose; continue this for 

 fourteen days then decrease in the same raitio." The electric battery has 

 proved of great benefit in many cases. 



The two above cases of chorea in a pug and an English setter gives 



you the old and well-known Fowlers' Solution of Arsenic treatment, and 



prbper sized doses, if you wish to try it. This is the old-time remedy and 



has cured Chorea when directions were carefully followed. 



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The following article on Chorea was. written especially for .this', book 

 by Dent: 



"Chorea is the most distressing nervous complaint dog owners are 

 familiar with. It is due to an involuntary nervous discharge of the motor 

 cells controlling certain muscles. The essential pathology of these more 

 or less constant muscular twitchings has baffled all scientific investigation, 

 and careful microscopic autopsies, extending from the nerve terminus in a 

 muscle back to the cord and brain, have failed to reveal a lesion that can 

 be considered a cause. 



"The most satisfactory theory is that the brain cells controlling a 

 certain muscle or set of muscles are so weakened by the poison of distemper 

 or some other cause as to cause them to send out muscular impulses with- 

 out natural mental impulse or will power. 



