230 THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



tohine and albumen, with disengagement of carbonic acid. 

 Pavesi states that the use of this preparation is not followed 

 by colored vision, as is the case where santonine is used alone. 

 — " L'Union Pharmaceutique," May.* 



PARASITIC MEASLES. 



The Cysticercus cellulosus, commonly known as " Pig 

 measle," or leprosy, has been observed in the dog. 



The veterinary professor Dupuy, according to Davaine, 

 found a large number on the surface of a dog's brain. Gurlt 

 has also discovered a great many in the muscles of a dog. 

 The preparations containing these are shown at the Berlin 

 Veterinary School. — " See " Magazin f. d. Gesamraete Thier- 

 heilkunde," 28 Jahr., 34 Jahr. , 



Roloff, veterinary professor in the University of Halle, in 

 1869, found the cysticerci in the lungs and liver (greatly 

 enlarged) of a dog, where they formed numerous vesicles the 

 size of a pea, and around them were tubercles varying in size 

 from a grain of millet to that of a hazlenut. Leblanc, a 

 Parisian veterinary surgeon, has described the symptoms pro- 

 duced by the parasite in the dog. In October, 1872, a 

 medium sized " griffon," aged fifteen months, was brought to 

 him in consequence of its sufferings from attacks of epilepsy. 

 Most frequently very quiet, and even dull, it was seized, 

 whenever it went out of doors, with convulsive movements, 

 and lay for some minutes before it got up again. It was 

 treated for cerebral congestion, with commencing ventricular 

 effusion, which is not uncommon in young dogs affected with 

 convulsions. 



Notwithstanding the treatment the symptoms became 

 aggravated, and were as follows : Convulsions without any 

 assignable cause, grinding of the teeth and champing of the 



* " Veterinarian," December, 1876. 



