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by fitful Starts and suppressed moans, and the eyelids during 

 that period are only partially closed. 



Treatment. — I have no remarks' to offer on the treatment 

 of canine hydrocephalus, beyond observing that the measures 

 adopted in human practice — compression, puncturing, and the 

 various medicinal agents — might be tried, and possibly with 

 success, in those cases where exceptional reasons for saving 

 animal life and removing the unnatural effects of the disease 

 existed. 



TURNSIDE. 



This condition, commonly known in sheep as "Gid," is 

 sometimes met with in the dog ; but in the latter it is not so 

 frequently due to the presence of hydatids as to other causes. 

 The symptoms are not unlike those mentioned in the preced- 

 ing disease, so far as the inclination to move in one direction 

 and the paralytic associations are concerned. Youatt de- 

 scribes them as follows : 



" He becomes listless, dull, off his food, and scarcely re- 

 cognizes any surrounding object. He has no fit ; but he 

 wanders about the room for several hours at a time, gener- 

 ally or almost invariably in the same direction, and with his 

 head on one side. At first he carefully avoids the objects that 

 are in his way ; but by degrees his mental faculties become 

 impaired ; his sense of vision is confused or lost, and he 

 blunders against every thing. In fact, if uninterrupted, he 

 would continue his strange perambulation incessantly, until 

 he was fairly worn out and died in convulsions." 



With regard \.o post-mortem examinations, he observes: 



" In some cases I have found spicula projecting from the 

 inner plate of the skull, and pressing upon or even penetra- 

 ting the dura mater. I know not why the dog should be more 

 subject to these irregularities of cranial surface than any of 



