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irritability, in default of which the patient may succumb 
from sheer exhaustion. Potassium bromide, chloral 
hydrate, and morphine have little effect on the spasms, 
but cannabis indica or chloretone internally, and chloro- 
form or ether by inhalation, have a decidedly greater 
influence, and may be usefully employed in urgent 
cases. 
“ French veterinary surgeons have prescribed antipyrin 
(or phenazone) as a carminative in irritable conditions of 
the central nervous system, and as a general analgesic as 
well as a local anesthetic in neuralgic cases” (Finlay 
Dunn). It has been extensively used against chorea in 
man with much benefit, but, unfortunately, seems to be 
attended with less favourable results when applied in 
canine practice. 
Other well-tried, though probably less efficacious, 
remedies are: aspirin, pot. iodide, ammonium and sodium 
bromide, sodz. salicylate, argentum nitrate, belladonna, 
hyoscyamus, antifebrin, camphor, and codeine. If the 
animal is of little value, and severe choreic spasms 
develop, it would doubtless be kinder and more 
economical to advise destruction than to administer a 
very prolonged treatment in the hope of ultimate re- 
covery. 
On the other hand, such recoveries do occur, even 
after bad attacks, and if the owner expresses anxiety that 
every endeavour be made to save the dog, the practitioner 
cannot do better than follow the course of treatment 
herein described. 
Paresis.—In paresis, however, whether it be hemiplegia, 
paraplegia, or general paralysis, the employment of nerve 
sedatives is contra-indicated, and we rely instead upon 
stimulants and tonics, usually administered pauerty 
over a long period. 
Dogs frequently wholly recover the use of their muscles 
