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DEATH OF A POINTER DOG, CAUSED BY TJENIA 
IN THE STOMACH. 
By Mr. R. Read, V.S., Crediton. 
On December 29th of last year, the Rev. Wm. Wellington re- 
quested my advice respecting his dog, that was continually sick, 
and had rapidly fallen away in flesh, and all this in the space of 
five or six days, his health previously being very good. I advised 
that a laxative dose should be given, and if he was no better on 
the morrow, to send him to my infirmary. Accordingly on the 
next evening he was sent in a cart. The following symptoms 
presented themselves : — An incomplete hemiplegia of the right 
side — amaurosis — a glossy appearance of both eyes — the back 
over the lumbar region raised — insensibility to sound — disrelish for 
all food. His position was that of sitting on his haunches, with 
his eyes fixed — the bowels unopened — cold ears and extremities — 
abdomen tightly contracted — spasmodic retraction of the head, 
with convulsive twitches. 
Autopsy . — In about one hour after death, and ten after his 
arrival, we opened him. The intestines, lungs, liver, bladder, 
in fact, all the contents both of the chest and abdomen, were in a 
most marked state of health, with the exception of the stomach, in 
which all the mischief lay. On cutting it open, about 6 oz. of 
highly-coloured serum escaped, and with it 2 or 3 oz. of dark 
coagulated blood. Detached and mixed with the same were two 
tape-worms , measuring about twenty inches each. About three 
parts of the stomach were in a high state of sanguineous congestion, 
which produced a rupture of the vessels, with effusion into the 
stomach of the dog. This was quite sufficient to account for the 
symptoms evinced. When tape-worms are found in the intestines, 
they are most generally embedded in a quantity of mucus ; but 
nothing of the kind was in the dog’s stomach, neither were there 
any to be found throughout the intestines. This is an interesting 
case, and shews what a train of symptoms follow from gastric 
irritation. 
