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The masseter muscles participated in the convulsive move- 

 ments of the other muscles, so that there was a continual 

 champing the jaws and an abundant salivation. The senses 

 were not impaired, however. An antispasmodic treatment 

 was adopted. The attack lasted four hours, when recovery 

 took place. 



" Mauri (Ibid., p. 675) reports another instance of this 

 malady occurring in a bitch, eight years old, and very fat. 

 It had pupped twelve days before, and suckled four 

 puppies. When brought to the Veterinary School it was 

 lying on its side, though it could raise itself on its sternum 

 — it panted much, its mouth was wide open and much 

 saliva flowed therefrom — the tongue was pendent. The 

 respiratory movements were much quickened, but very 

 shallow. The eyes were wide open and slightly squinted 

 to the left. Violent convulsions, as if produced by electric 

 discharges, agitated the limbs, and threw them into a state 

 of forced extension ; if a group of extensor muscles — such 

 as the patellar — were seized in the hand, the energetic con- 

 tractions, rapidly repeated, could be easily felt. Nothing 

 of the kind could be distinguished in the flexor muscles. 

 The senses were not affected. The urine did not offer any 

 trace of albumen. In the course of the day the symptoms 

 disappeared and the animal recovered. 



*' Mauri alludes to four additional cases of eclampsia — 

 two in the cow and two in the bitch, all presenting similar 

 symptoms to the foregoing." 



