244 KENNEL DISEASES. 
Certain chemists manufacture a tablet in which the latter appears with the 
sulphate of morphia and sulphate of atrophia; and this combination promises 
well. 
A tablet suitable for an adult would be right for a pup over eight months 
old and of medium size or large breed; while it should be cut in halves for fox 
terriers or the like, and quartered for toys. 
The medicine should be thrown under the skin directly over the muscles 
that twitch. 
As stated in the beginning, chorea is an extremely obstinate affection, and 
cures are unlikely to occur except in rare instances; but still, if the subject is 
valuable, an honest effort should be made for him. 
NEURALGIA. 
Neuralgia or nerve pain has been defined as the cry of a nerve for more or 
better blood. 
Such pain occurring in any part of the body may originate in and be solely 
in consequence of some defect in a nerve there, but as a rule it is a symptom 
and expression of a general faulty condition, due to some impairment of the 
nervous system, and in most cases, but not all, to poverty of the blood. 
An example of the former is face ache —tic douloureux— when produced 
by a decayed tooth. While hemicrania or neuralgic pain in one side of the 
head, when not due to disease of a tooth or inflammation of the cheek or jaw, 
is an illustration of the other form of neuralgia. This often has the character 
of “chills and fever,” comes and goes at intervals like that, and defies all other 
remedies except quinine, thus plainly showing that it is constitutional — not 
local — and due to a malarial taint in the system. 
Many exciting causes, both local and constitutional, are recognized as active 
in producing neuralgia. The former by pressure or other influence applied 
directly to the nerve itself, the latter by morbid states of the blood, exposure 
to cold, disorders of digestion, debility, and many other derangements. 
Neuralgia may appear in any organ or part of the body that is supplied with 
nerves of sensation. 
The pain usually comes on suddenly. In severe cases it is excruciating, and 
forces the sufferer to howl piteously. He also acts strangely. Possibly he runs 
wildly about and appears as though “out of his head,” but as a rule he first, 
and for a time, clings as it were to his master or mistress, evidently hopeful of 
relief from friendly hand. But failing to obtain it, he is singularly inclined to 
slink away and conceal himself for hours, and perhaps days, in the barn or an 
out-of-the-way place, where he generally remains until the attack has passed off. 
