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a day ; I put it on a sedative of four drops of aconite every 
three hours, and kept the colt from lying down for the first 
forty-eight hours. The colt made a good recovery and seems 
as sound and as hearty as ever. 
EPILEPTIC FITS IN A HORSE. 
By R. W. Ellis, D.Y.S. 
On June 20th I was called to see a roan horse fifteen years 
old, said to be suffering with colic. When 1 arrived I could 
discover no symptoms of colic and got the following history : 
“ Night before last he was taken with colic and 1 gave him 
a colic mixture that the druggist keeps, but he was quite a 
while before he got quiet. He would shake all over when he 
was down, but after a while he suddenly became quiet and got 
up all right, and 1 left him. He went to work yesterday, but 
this morning he laid down and “shook” again, so we left him 
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in. 
That is the history as 1 got it. I then took his tempera¬ 
ture which was 102* F., pulse about normal, and otherwise 
apparently all right. The attendant informed me that he def¬ 
ecated and micturated in a natural manner and as far as he 
could discern the quantity and consistency of the excrement 
was about normal, but that he did not eat well, so I prescribed 
a tonic and left him, saying I would call again next morning, 
thinking that whatever it was that was lurking in his system 
would develop itself by that time. But that evening about 
seven o’clock one of the attendants came to me very much 
excited and stated that the horse was worse, and was having 
“fits.” 
1 hurried to the place, and the second time found the horse 
standing, apparently all right. In a few minutes, however, 
he began to evince signs of restlessness and the attendant 
said : “ Now, doctor, that’s the way he did before the other 
“fit.” In a moment later he went down very suddenly, and 
had spasm after spasm, in rapid succession, during which all 
his muscles became rigid and tense, even to the posterior rec¬ 
tus of the ball of the eye, causing the membrana nictitans to 
