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but it manages to live, and seems to endure more incon- 

 venience than positive pain. The muscles on the para- 

 lysed side do not appear to be entirely deprived of 

 nervous power. I infer this to be the case because they 

 do not waste, and therefore attribute the affection to loss 

 of tone rather than to actual palsy. 



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The cause is not known. Some dogs are pupped in 

 this condition ; others are only affected in this way when 

 age has far advanced. In the latter case the symptom is 

 sudden, and nothing previous has been observed which 

 would denote the probability of the attack ; but, arguing 

 from the description of animals which are subject to this 

 affection, and the periods .when it mostly is exhibited, we 

 may attribute it to weakness of the constitution. 



For the disease nothing of a local nature can be done. 

 I have been induced to try various topical remedies, but 

 not with any satisfactory result ; and I am not very hope- 

 ful as to future experiments in the same direction. Con- 

 stitutional remedies have more power ; and by these, if 

 we cannot cure, we may limit the evil. For pups, good 

 nursing not petting or pampering, but whatever can 

 invigorate wholesome diet, airy lodging, and sufficient 

 exercise, will do much. For older animals, the same 

 measures, combined with such medicines as correct the 

 digestion and give tone to the system, will be proper. 

 An operation of dividing the muscles of that side on 

 which the tongue protruded was once successful ; but on 

 three subsequent occasions it failed, and I have therefore 

 relinquished it ; for it is not quite safe, and puts the ani- 



