TURNSIDE PHRENITIS. 109 



TURNSIDE. 



TUKNSIDE is a disease of one side of the brain only, so that 

 the animal has a tendency to wander in a circle, like the 

 gidd of sheep. I have never had an opportunity of examining 

 the brain of a dog attacked by the disease, and I never saw 

 but one case, and from that the recovery was perfect, though 

 slow. The remedies were, a seton, purgatives, and finally nitrate 

 of silver in quarter-grain doses. The dog was a large white 

 setter three or four years of age, and the disease appeared 

 after a very severe week's work in hot weather early in September. 

 There was no fever, and the dog fed well enough, though taking 

 very little at a time, and soon leaving the food to pursue his 

 circles ; but, on presenting it again to him, he would eat three or 

 four mouthfuls ravenously, and thus, by a little management, 

 he was easily induced to take his proper allowance. 



PHRENITIS OR SIMPLE INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 



I have already alluded to the inflammation of the brain which 

 frequently comes on as a complication of distemper, but there 

 is also sometimes an attack of that organ without the presence of 

 that disease. It generally occurs in very hot weather, and is so 



