280 The 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 toleft. This 
terminated by falling from mere weariness; but he pre- 
sently rose again and recommenced his eagels, and always 
with a quick pace. Latteriy 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 stopped 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 
