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causes, such as worms, constipation, and so on, 

 must be removed, and in the case of depressed frac- 

 tures of the cranium surgical means must be em- 

 ployed, if possible, and the patient placed on a 

 course of potassium iodid and solanin (one grain) 

 three times a day, or one grain of silver nitrate 

 daily in three doses. The bromids so long used in 

 medicine for the relief of epilepsy do not produce 

 what is claimed for them, and certainly are in- 

 effective. 



Chorea 



This troublesome nervous infection is discussed 

 under distemper (see p. 151). 



