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HOWARD B. FELTON. 
we employ a combination of opium, one grain, snlpho-carbolate 
of zinc, one grain, and bismuth subnitrate, five grains. Also 
enema of starch water. We have found the best diet in dys¬ 
entery to be raw meat or meat slightly broiled in butter, cut up 
finely and given in small quantities. This is completely 
digested in the stomach before it reaches the inflamed bowel. 
We do not use purgatives, but employ olive oil for its laxative, 
emollient and nutritive qualities. 
For epileptic fits we employ the hot bath and give mixed 
doses of potassium bromide and chloral, five grains of each, re¬ 
peating every three hours and increasing the dose if necessary. 
Where it is necessary to use this remedy for some time we sub¬ 
stitute bromide of sodium for the potassium salt, as it can be 
given in larger doses and is better tolerated by the stomach. In 
those cases of locomotor ataxia and those in which the animal 
travels around in a circle we have never had any good results 
from treatment. It would seem in the latter case that trephin¬ 
ing is indicated if the proper spot could be found. In chorea 
we have tried every remedy proposed thus far and must say that 
the only good results we have ever obtained have been by the 
employment of arsenic. We have not obtained the results which 
M. Monfallet gets by the use of quinine. It may be, however, 
that the cases which he cured did not have chorea as a result of 
distemper. 
It is our opinion and that of a number of physicians with 
whom we have conversed that chorea following distemper in the 
dog is of a much more intractable kind than that seen in chil¬ 
dren. We believe it to result largely from the anaemic con¬ 
dition of the blood, and the granular degeneration of the nerve 
cells in this disease indicates that it is a very serious lesion in¬ 
deed. In arsenic we have the valuable properties of a blood 
tonic and a special stimulant to the nervous system. We begin 
with two drops of Fowler’s solution thrice daily, increasing one 
drop every third day and pushing it up almost to the verge of 
poisoning, stopping altogether when the animal begins to vomit, 
and after two days commencing again with the smallest dose. 
