2 84 The Management and Diseases of the Dog, 



the wall. When exhausted, he would fall on his side in an 

 apparently comatose state, and after this had passed away 

 the perambulations were recommenced, or if lifted up, he 

 would start off again in a circle to the right or left as 

 headed. 



When fed, his nose had to be thrust into the food to in- 

 duce him to eat, which he did in a lethargic mechanical 

 kind of way without relish, or any corresponding good re- 

 sult, as he gradually became emaciated. 



Seton's behind the ears, blisters, bromide of potassium, 

 nux vomica, galvanism, and a variety of other measures 

 were adopted in the treatment, but all in vain. 



An eleven months' existence under the above conditions 

 was nearly terminated by the dog himself, who was dis- 

 covered one day breathless and apparently lifeless, with his 

 head in a vessel of porridge, in the eating of which he had 

 evidently fallen asleep. Artificial respiration and galvan- 

 ism brought back vitality, but after this he lived only a 

 few hours. Throughout the case the patient was visited 

 by many members of the Medical and Veterinary Profes- 

 sion, and others interested in the matter. 



After death I sent the head and spine to the Royal 

 Veterinary College, without any examination of the brain 

 or cord on my part, but extreme atrophy of the former 

 (the organ being little larger than a walnut) was the chief 

 report I received, nothing being assigned as the original 

 cause of dementia or abeyance of the mental faculties. 



That some severe shock or lesion occurred during coitus 

 or immediately after is evident. I thought it possible an 

 embolism or some obstruction in a cerebral artery might 

 have been found. 



As a singular coincidence, the bitch he had connection 

 with proved barren, but at the period when parturition 

 should have occurred, had conception taken place, she sud- 

 denly died, and a post-mortem examination revealed ova- 

 rian disease and metritis. 



