2 So TJie Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



" A dog, aged three years, was very subject to epileptic 

 fits. After a considerable period the fits would cease. I 

 have often seen these fits cease with the complete evolution 

 of the adult teeth. The last fit was a very strong one, and 

 was followed by peculiar symptoms — the animal became 

 dispirited, the eyes lost their usual lively appearance, and 

 the eyelids were often closed. The dog became very drowsy, 

 and during sleep there were observed, from time to time, 

 spasmodic movements, principally of the muscles of the head 

 and chest. He always lay down on the left side. When he 

 walked he had a marked propensity to turn to the left. The 

 animal was placed under my care. I employed purgatives, 

 a seton in the back part of the neck, and the application 

 of the cautery to the left side of the forehead ; but nothing 

 'would stop the progress of the disease, and the dog died in 

 the course of two months after the last epileptic fit. 



" During his abode in my establishment, he had the run 

 of the garden when it was fine weather. From the drowsiness 

 that he manifested when he was shut up, he nearly always re- 

 covered himself when he had his liberty, and especially while 

 his strength remained. He was constantly in motion, and 

 perpetually walking up and down from right to left. This 

 terminated by falling from mere weariness ; but he pre- 

 sently rose again and recommenced his travels, and always 

 with a quick pace. Latterly he began to take a circular 

 course instead of following that of the walks, which were 

 rectangular : he then traversed the squares, totally regard- 

 less of, or not seeing, the obstacles that were in his way. 



"When he was stppped by some obstacle, he at first 

 endeavoured to make it give way ; but if it resisted his 

 efforts in a circular direction he turned aside, but always 

 to the left. The nearer he approached his end the smaller 

 were the circles that he took, and, in the latter period of 

 his existence; he did little more than turn, as he would on 

 a pivot. When the time arrived that he could walk no more, 

 he used to lay himself down on his left side, or, if we put 



