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CASES OF SUSPECTED POISONING IN DOGS. 
nexion between the results of dissection and the phenomena of 
disease. The most violent symptoms referrible to this organ often 
exist during life ; and yet, on the most careful examination after 
death, either no appreciable lesion, or none sufficient to account for 
the phenomena, can be detected ; whilst, on the other hand, 
many and most important changes are frequently discovered in 
both the brain and its membranes, in cases which betrayed either 
no cerebral disorder , or none calculated to excite suspicion during 
life of any organic change.” — Copland's Dictionary of Practical 
Medicine, p. 201, article “ Brain.” 
THREE CASES OF SUSPECTED POISONING IN 
DOGS. 
By JOHN Tombs, M.R.C. V.S., Stratford-on-Avon. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — I SEND you a history of three suspicious cases of poison- 
ing in dogs. At first, rabies was suspected, on account of the dogs 
being taken ill at stated periods, similar to their sickening for mad- 
ness after being bitten. Another circumstance that strengthened 
this supposition was that the old bitch, when pregnant, attacked a 
strange dog, which bit her. The first two cases are recorded by 
the proprietor : the symptoms of the third case I ascertained by 
interrogating the owner, and made a post-mortem examination of 
the dog, which leads me to believe that he had been drugged. 
1 am, Sir, 
Your’s respectfully. 
Case I. 
Jidy 1847. — A pointer bitch, three and a-half years old, with 
puppies seven weeks old, died about the seventh day. 
Symptoms. 
1st day. — The bitch looked thin, her bag a little swollen : she 
was cross to her puppies. 
2 d day. — Bag more inflamed and swollen. 
