26o THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



Symptoms. Partial or entire insensibility ; heavy sterto- 

 rous breathing ; fixed blood-shot eyes ; slow pulse. 



Treatment. — Blood should be abstracted from the jugular, 

 if possible, or the hair shaved off the back of the head, and 

 leeches applied. Ammonia should be placed to the nostrils, 

 brandy rubbed on the gums, and counter-irritation along the 

 spine. 



VERTIGO. 



Uogs are occasionally seized with a kind of dizziness or 

 vertigo. They suddenly fall, remain unconscious for a minute 

 or two, and motionless ; and then almost as suddenly regain 

 their legs, and with the exception of appearing a little be- 

 wildered, seemed as though nothing unusual had happened. 



Such seizures are generally due to biain pressure, most 

 frequently from some retarding influence in the return of 

 blood from the head, as a tight collar, glandular enlargements, 

 bronchocele, etc. A disordered condition of stomach is like- 

 wise a predisposing cause, and the susceptibility to an attack 

 of vertigo is greater after a full meal, and particularly if any 

 of the above-named obstructions to the circulation also 

 exist. 



Treatment. This consists in removal of the cause ; neck 

 pressure as far as possible should be avoided ; a healthy 

 state of the digestive organs maintained j with proper obser- 

 vance of hygienics. 



CHOREA. 



Chorea, or St. Vitus's dance, is a purely nervous affection, 

 and is the result generally of an irritable and impaired con- 

 dition of the nervous system. It may be general or local- 

 The limbs are frequently first observed affected, ultimately 



