Epilepsy] J °^ [Epilepsy 



dog, say from half 1 a pint to two quarts a day. 

 Later, when the motions seem normal and the 

 condition of the tongue improves, scraped lean 

 raw meat may be given in small quantities. 



Epilepsy : 



Symptoms : An attack generally occurs quite 

 suddenly ; dog falls uttering perhaps a loud cry, 

 is violently convulsed, champs his jaws, and 

 froths at the mouth, and is unconscious. The 

 attack generally lasts about half a minute, 

 when the dog looks around him in a sort 

 of dazed condition, and then often bolts off, 

 not knowing where he is going to. Often 

 one attack is followed by more, so it is 

 important that the dog should be put in a 

 place of security as quickly as possible, a good 

 sized hamper is as good as anything. During 

 the convulsions of epilepsy or just after, the 

 patient unknowingly will bite his owner or any- 

 one else, but there is no danger from such a 

 bite. 



Treatment : During the convulsions, it is best 

 to leave the dog alone, unless one attack is 

 being quickly succeeded by another, in which 

 case two 1 or three drops of nitrite of amyl held 

 to the nose, on a piece of blotting paper, lessens 

 the severity of the convulsions. Chloroform 

 similarly applied answers the same purpose. 

 Directly the patient is able to swallow, give 

 a dose of hydrated chloral and bromide of 

 potassium, from three l to twenty grains of 

 each, in from two teaspoonfuls x to two table- 

 1 According to the size of the dog. See p. 86. 



