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three times daily in the food, and the dose should 

 be increased one-fourth after every third day. 



After having given the mixture thirteen days, 

 stop for three days and resume with the same 

 amount of dose as you stopped at. This you 

 continue until the dog has taken forty-eight drops. 

 After this there should be a second stop for three 

 days, when the use of the medicine should be re- 

 sumed, beginning with forty-eight drops and de- 

 creasing every three days with one-fourth of the 

 total dose. This treatment is continued for about 

 three months. 



A TOUGH CASE OF CHOREA 



I have been advised to write you for advice 

 concerning my dog. 



I have a very fine English setter dog, just a 

 year old to-day. Was a very active and precocious 

 pup up to about the middle of October last, when 

 he showed symptoms of distemper. 



I took him at once to a very good veterinarian, 

 who gave him three inoculations of distemper 

 serum at intervals of a few days apart. I never 

 saw a quicker or more complete recovery, and 

 he gained nicely in appetite and flesh for about 

 ten days or two weeks, when he began to show 

 symptoms of chorea in his right shoulder mus- 



