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minutes, but which were readily relieved by strong friction, 
a kind of massage of the throat. As he was short-necked, and 
had a very short nose, I attributed the trouble to a spasmodic 
occlusion of the glottis, and when asked the cause of this 
trouble, jokingly answered that “he was trying to swallow his 
tongue.” Those attacks never lasted more than a few minutes, 
and would sometimes not occur for weeks after weeks. 
During the summer of 1895 I took him abroad ; he was 
very sea-sick, but arrived safely in Paris, securing lodgment in 
a fashionable quarter of the gay city, where he was obliged to 
go up and down four pairs of stairs, two, three and four times a 
day. At first he made those trips willingly and freely, running 
both ways without the .slightest appearance of disturbance. 
About the first part of June of this year he seemed to be less 
willing to go out. One trip in the morning, another in the 
evening, were about all that he cared to make ; and, if called 
out more, it was not with the same gaiety that he would allow his 
harness to be put on him. He began also to get tired quicker in 
his walks ; going upstairs became painful to him, and often he 
would take a rest when half way in his ascension. At about 
this time, when returning from a walk, or even during the day, 
he would lie down on his left side, somewhat restless and rest¬ 
ing his left ear on the floor ; which made me suspect that he 
had some earache, perhaps an incipient catarrh. A little oil of 
almonds, with laudanum, introduced with a little cotton, in the 
ear, would at first give him relief, but soon this proved ineffica¬ 
cious and the ear remaining perfectly clean I looked for another 
explanation of the trouble. I then examined his teeth ; they 
were in fair condition ; he had a certain odor from the mouth ; 
but as he was so restless and strong, and being unable to exam- 
me him to my satisfaction, and suspecting a carious back tooth 
to be the cause of his evident pain, I took him to Alfort, where 
his teeth were found healthy and his ailments attributed to 
rheumatism. 
By that time the symptoms had assumed a very severe as¬ 
pect, the disease made rapid progress, and all its manifestations 
were easily recognized. Sometimes starting from the house gay 
and lively, he would go down-stairs well, run or walk a short 
distance as usual, and then, of a sudden, his neck would begin 
to swell, his body arched, his tail hanging down, walking with 
his head down stiff; a general stiffness all over, but more 
marked in his foreparts, panting severely, roaring loudly, with 
his tongue bluish and protruding, saliva flowing from the 
