328 DISEASES OF DOGS : FITS. 



The characteristic symptoms of fits, then, are con- 

 vulsive motions of one or more parts of the body, 

 while, at the same time, the dog is in a great mea- 

 sure insensible. Sometimes the dog appears dull 

 before a fit comes on, and at other times there is 

 no previous symptom whatever. 



A fit often precedes an attack of the distemper ; 

 in some seasons the chief symptoms attending 

 distemper are fits, and a wasting of the body ; 

 and when the distemper has continued some time, 

 and been very severe, fits frequently come on, and 

 are always, in such cases, accounted an unfavour- 

 able presage : the remedies adapted for fits in the 

 distemper you will find in the section on that 

 disease. 



Fits sometimes arise from the irritation of 

 worms in the intestines, and when this is the case 

 the presence of these animals is mostly detected 

 by other accompanying symptoms ; these fits re- 

 quire the same remedies as directed for worms. 

 (See Worms.) 



Sometimes costiveness or a foul state of the 

 Ijowels, and sometimes the constitutional irritation 

 arising from teething causes fits : in these instances 



