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and hepatic disorder associated with giddiness and unsteady move- 

 ments, caused by overloading the stomach, worms and gastro- 

 intestinal catarrh. 



Sjnnptoms: Gastric irritation, colicky pains, eructation of gas, 

 delirium followed by a comatose condition. 



Prevention : Reduce rations and exercise regularly. 



Treatment : Give intestinal evacuants ; venesection or derivatives 

 such as areeoline and pilocarpine; laxative diet; chloral hydrate 

 during the violence of the attack. 



Give the symptoms of inflammation of the meninges of the brain. 



Phreiiitis, encephalitis, pachymeningitis or inflammation of the 

 brain proper and leptomeningitis, inflammation of the coverings 

 of the brain usually coexist and are indistinguishable, symptomati- 

 eally ; they are shown by hypersesthesia, delirium, pawing, plunging, 

 and violent convulsions, followed by dulness, stupor, somnolence, 

 muscular weakness, anaesthesia, paralysis and coma. 



Give the causes and symptoms of gid in sheep. 



Caused by the presence of the cystic form of the tcenia ccenurus 

 {coenurus cerehralis) in the brain. 



Symptoms: Timidity, nervousness, dulness, dilated pupils, 

 drooping lids, circular movements, pivoting on one foot, plunging 

 ahead, hemiplegia and paraplegia. 



Give causes, symptoms and treatment of chorea in the dog. 



Causes: Weakness, previous disease, microbian toxic matters 

 in the blood, hence it usually follows distemper. 



Symptoms: Local twitching of one or both fore limbs, neck, 

 head, maxilla, eyelids, hind limbs, or the whole body may partici- 

 pate; movements are rhythmical, are less active when recumbent, 

 and may or may not be absent during sleep. 



Treatment: Hygienic measures, fresh air and sunshine, nerve 

 tonics, such as arsenic and strychnine ; nerve sedatives may be indi- 

 cated if too restless, such as belladonna, chloral hydrate, bromides 

 and morphine. Usually incurable. 



What symptoms would tend to distinguish cerebral anaemia from cere- 

 bral hyperaemia? 



Cerebral Ancemia. Cerehral Byperwmia. 



Loss of consciousness. Cerebral excitement. 



Stumbling. Delirium. 



Vomiting in dogs. Mucous membranes injected. 



Paleness of mucous membranes. Respiratory movements accelerated. 

 Respiratory movements shallow and 

 slow. 



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