348 ATONIC DISEASES. 



they are only suspected, it is prudent to give a dose of the most 

 simple worm-medicine, such as the areca nut (65). If this brings 

 away only one or two, the presence of others may be predicated, 

 and a persistence in the proper medicines will be necessary, until 

 the dog is supposed to be cleansed from them. Beyond this, the 

 remedies must be directed to improve the general health, and at 

 the same time to relieve any possible congestion of the brain or 

 spine, by the insertion of a seton in the neck. Fresh country ail 

 is very beneficial. If good nourishing animal food, mixed with a 

 proper proportion of vegetables does not avail, recourse may be 

 had to the following tonic, which is often of the greatest service : 

 Sulphate of zinc, 2 to 5 grains ; extract of gentian, 3 grains. Mix, 

 and form a bolus. To be given three times a day. 



Careful attention must be paid to the state of the bowels, both 

 constipation and looseness being prejudicial to the health, and each 

 requiring the appropriate treatment. Sometimes the tonic pill (62) 

 will do wonders, and often the change from it to the sulphate of 

 zinc and back again will be of more service than either of them 

 continued by itself. A perseverance in these methods, with the aid 

 of the shower-bath, used by means of a watering-pot applied to the 

 head and spine, and followed by moderate, exercise, will some- 

 times entirely remove the disease. In the majorityof cases a slight 

 drop will be ever afterwards noticed, and in sporting-dogs the 

 Strength is seldom wholly restored. 



SHAKING PALSY. 



This resembles chorea in its nature, but it is incessant, except 

 during sleep, and attacks the whole body. The same remedies 

 may be applied, but it is an incurable disease, though not always 

 destroying life. 



FITS. 



Fits are of three kinds : 1st, those arising from irritation, espe 

 Cially in the puppy, and known as convulsive fits : Sndly, those 



