CHOREA—PHRENITIS IN SHEEP. ()1 1 
Dry rubbing with a brush or wisp of hay will usually remove 
it. 
Cramp is occasionally observed in horses that have laboured 
under painful diseases ; and it especially follows severe surgical 
operations. The contracted muscles (and which are particularly 
those of the back, loins, and croup) are drawn into hard knots 
or tumours, but which disappear at the expiration of a few days. 
CHOREA. 
JBy the same. 
Chorea, or St. Guy’s dance, consists in continual, involun¬ 
tary movements of a part or the whole of the voluntary mus¬ 
cles ; and chiefly those of the limbs. Its progress is regular, or 
slightly remittent. 
It is oftenest observed in young dogs, and especially after dis¬ 
temper ; and it seems to depend on a certain degree of primary 
or sympathetic inflammatory affection of the brain. 
The treatment consists in bleeding, general or local, seconded 
by warm baths, and the administration of emollients, if the dog 
has distemper; and cold baths, and the use of antispasmodics 
and narcotics, if chorea is not associated with any other disease. 
PHRENITIS IN SHEEP. 
-Ry Mr. J. Tait, Portsoy. 
Some time ago I was requested to look at a flock of sheep 
belonging to a farmer in Forfarshire. Upon inquiry, I found 
that the sheep, owing to the dry season (1826), had been con¬ 
siderably stinted in their food in the summer time, and that 
they had been, about a month before I saw them, staked in a 
field of very fine turnips. The appearance of the slieep was 
rather strange : for about a minute they appeared quite dull, and 
then all at once became quite frantic, dashing themselves on the 
ground, and running at every person within their reach; others 
would all at once spring from the ground, and fall down and 
die. 
I caught one, and bled her copiously, which seemed to relieve 
lier much. I then gave her a dose of Epsom salts, which in a 
few days produced a cure, and by such simple treatment many 
of the sheep recovered. 
