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animal functions appear to have been normal, was observed 
four months since to be less lively than usual, to have fallen 
off his appetite, and frequently to hang down his head. The 
company, nevertheless, continued to use him. One day the 
groom observed that the muscles of the eyes, jaws, and fore- 
limbs, were convulsively contracted : “ the horse,” said he, 
“ made grimaces , he turned up his eyes, and twisted his 
shoulders.” These symptoms were renewed several times 
every few days ; becoming, at length, much more marked. 
As the attacks became more frequent, they often terminated 
in the falling of the animal, who, however, soon raised himself 
again. The groom now thought that the horse was very ill, 
and the omnibus company determined not to have him 
worked any more, in order to avoid all accidents. The animal 
was therefore placed in the infirmary. 
I had never, till now, been a witness to any of his attacks; 
and had, consequently not been enabled to investigate the 
symptoms, or general habits of the animal. 
On the 30th September, the superintendent of the stables 
said to me : “The epileptic horse has just had a very bad fit; 
he has fallen and cannot raise himself ; he is going to die, 
for he does not move.” I found the animal stretched upon 
the litter, in a comatose condition, insensible even to the 
strokes of the whip ; his respiration was very slow, and some- 
times suspended ; the pulse was also very short and weak. I 
applied a very strong vesicatory on each side of the nape of 
the neck. 
The following day I found the horse standing ; he had got 
up shortly after my former visit. They had placed him in a 
loose box. He still hung down his head, but had a pretty 
good appetite. The groom informed me that he had seen 
him several times making circular movements from left to 
right. This action, he added, continued for some time, and 
he only stopped when one of his hind legs (the left, which 
he never raised from the ground,) became surrounded with a 
tight twist of straw. When this was removed, he again 
commenced turning, and always in the same direction. I 
ordered the horse out, he inclined a little to the right in his 
walk, and he was made to go backwards with difficulty, but 
this retrograde movement could always be effected. He easily 
resumed his proper position when his hind legs were crossed. 
His eyes were likewise fixed. 
As the horse was not of much value, the owners proposed 
to have him killed, but I wished to observe his symptoms for 
a few days longer before this was done. They therefore kept 
him till Sunday, the 8 th of October. From the 1st to the 8 th 
