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cles. Have had the same veterinarian treat him 

 again for a month and he grew steadily worse, 

 but the trouble has never affected any other part, 

 or set of muscles, just the right shoulder. 



The leg is held up at the elbow tightly against 

 his upper leg muscle, but only when he is standing 

 or exercising, and jerks continually. 



When he lies down he always lies on the af- 

 fected side, and when asleep is perfectly quiet. 

 Does not touch foot to the ground, but suffers 

 no pain from it, yet his sense of feeling in the leg 

 is 0. K. That is, it is not paralysed. Muscles 

 are slightly shrunken from habitual disuse, but 

 not noticeably. He got do^vn to skin and bone 

 and so helpless I had to carry him to and from 

 his kennel. 



I then gave him Fowler's solution of arsenic, 

 commenced with three drops, increased to fif- 

 teen, then back to nothing, twice. His appetite 

 came back and he gained in every way except that 

 continual muscular twitching and jerking in the 

 right shoulder only, and that decreased consider- 

 ably in severity. I am continuing the Fowler's 

 treatment, but for the past month I can see no 

 improvement in the muscular twitchings. At 

 present he feels fine, is apparently in perfect 



