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and hepatic disorder associated with giddiaess and unsteady move- 

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

 intestinal catarrh. 



Symptoms: 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 arecoline and pilocarpine; laxative diet; chloral hydrate 

 during the violence of the attack. 



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



Pachymeningitis, inflammation of the dura mater, and lepto- 

 meningitis, inflammation of the pia and arachnoid, are shown by 

 hyperaesthesia, delirium, pawing, plunging, and violent convulsions, 

 followed by dulness, stupor, somnolence, muscular weakness, anaes- 

 thesia, paralysis and coma. In most cases it is very difficult to differ- 

 entiate cerebral meningitis from meningo-encephalitis. The two 

 conditions usually coexist. 



Give the causes and symptoms of gid in sheep. 



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

 (coBnurus cerehraUs) in the brain. 



Symptoms : Timidity, nervousness, dulness, dilated pupils, droop- 

 ing lids, circular movements, pivoting on one foot, plunging ahead, 

 hemiplegia and paraplegia. 



Give causes, s}miptoms 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 participate; 

 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 argenic and strychnine ; if too restless, give sedatives, 

 as chloral hydrate, bromides and morphine. Usually incurable. 



What symptoms would tend to distinguish cerebral anaemia from cere- 

 bral hyperaemia? 



Cerebral Anwmia. Cerebral Eypermmia. 



Lobs of consciousness. Cerebral excitement. 



Stumbling. Delirium. 



Vomiting in dogs. Mucous membranes injected. 



Paleness of mucous membranes. Respiratory movements accelerated. 

 Respiratory movements shallow and 

 slow. 



