CHAPTEE V. 



DISEASES ACCOMPANIED BY WANT OF POWER. 



Chorea — Shaking Palsy — Fits — Worms — General Dropsy or Anasarca. 



As inflammation is attended by increased action of the heart and 

 arteries, so this class of diseases is, on the contrary, accompanied 

 by a want of tone (atony) in these organs, as well as by an irri- 

 tability of the nervous system, which arises from the same cause. 

 None of them require lowering measures, but, on the contrary, 

 tonics and generous living will almost always be demanded. I 

 have included worms among them, because these parasites produce 

 a lowering effect, and seldom infest to any extent a strong healthy, 

 subject, preferring the delicate and half-starved puppy to the 

 full-grown and hardy dog. 



CHOREA. 



Chorea, or St. Vitios's Dance, may be known by the spasmodic 

 twitches which accompany it, and by their ceasing during sleep. 

 In slight cases the spasm is a mere drop of the head and shoulder, 

 or sometimes of the hind quarter only, the nods in the former case, 

 or the backward drop in the latter, giving a very silly and weak 

 expression to the animal. Chorea is almost always a consequence 

 of distemper, so that it is unnecessary to describe its early stages, 

 and the disease itself cannot be further defined than by the above 



