238 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



report of that establishment for 1871, cites an analagous 

 -case. "A large-sized dog, always apparently in good 

 health, was suddenly seized with cramp and convulsions, 

 especially of the jaws.. In a short time it was unable to 

 stand ; the pulse and respiration were much quickened, the 

 head hot, and the conjunctivae injected : considerable pros- 

 tration was present. By starts it would jump up spon- 

 taneously, run forward until it met some obstackj push 

 hard against it, and bark for half an hour at a time ; then 

 it would lie down, convulsively champ with its mouth, from 

 which saliva would flow, and remain in a state of coma. It 

 died on the evening of the day on which it showed these 

 symptoms. On examination the brain, and more especially 

 its envelopes, were found greatly congested. In the super- 

 ficial part of the two hemispheres of the cerebrum were 

 found twenty-three cysticerci, each about the size of a pea ; 

 they were enveloped in a thin white cyst of connective 

 tissue, around which the proper texture of the brain 

 appeared redder than usual, and a little softened. Nothing 

 abnormal was observed in the other organs."* 



Fleming's '' Veterinary Sanitary Science," vol. ii. pp. 525, 526. 



