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EPILEPSY IN A MARE. 
As a proof of the rapidity with which the poison acts, I 
may tell you that in fifteen minutes from the time my dog was 
bitten her head had grown to twice its proper size, and she 
became extremely languid and drowsy. 
EPILEPSY IN A MARE. 
By J. Harrison, V.S., Brough, Westmoreland. 
On the 17th of April, 1861, my attendance was requested 
to see a brown mare, rising six years old, the property of Mr. 
Wm. Cannon, Burtergill, Warcop. 
On my arrival, about 8 p.m., I found her presenting the 
following symptoms. She was lying down in a loose box, 
totally unable to rise; her extremities were violently con¬ 
vulsed, and during the paroxysms, which were nearly con¬ 
tinuous, she threw r herself from one side of the box to the 
other, and sometimes rolled over; the head and neck were 
also spasmodically affected, and a rotatory movement took 
place from one side to the other ; the eyes v 7 ere amaurotic, 
and rolled like tv r o balls in their sockets; the pulse w 7 as slow 
and full; the extremities warm ; the respiration normal. 
Upon inquiring into the previous history of the case, I 
learnt from Mr. Cannon that the mare had showm symptoms 
of lameness during the week previous, first in the off fore 
limb, and then in the hind one ; but as it seemed only of a 
temporary nature, and she continued to do her w-ork, they 
took little notice of it; but on the morning of the 17th, 
as Mr. Cannon’s servant was ploughing with the mare, she 
suddenly dropped to the ground, struggled violently for a 
minute or two, and then got up, staggering much in her 
S ait . 
This he thought arose from some injury to the back; she 
was therefore removed out of the plough, taken home, and 
placed in a loose box, v f hen the symptoms became gradually 
worse until the evening, when I first sav r her. 
Along with the rest of Mr. Cannon’s horses she had 
been fed on hay, cut chaff, oats, and oatmeal-husks for some 
time. 
From the extreme violence of the paroxysms it was evident 
she was a dangerous subject to come into close contact v T ith ; 
consequently I had a halter put on, and tied her up to a post. 
I then fastened a rope to each fore fetlock, threw the loose 
