284 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. 
