CEREBRAL APOPLEXY. 487 



" 14th. To my surprise I found the animal lying down, 

 quite unconscious, the eyes closed, mouth partly open, no 

 sense of feeling anywhere present, and, in about eight 

 hours from tumbling down, he died without a struggle. 



" I thought that the brain had been affected sympatheti- 

 cally and sub-acutely at first viz., on the 1st of March 

 and that probably there was a small clot of blood pressing 

 on that organ ; and as he improved under treatment, and 

 there were no violent symptoms, I hoped that the clot was 

 becoming absorbed to some slight extent. 



"On making a post-mortem examination, I found the 

 brain in the state represented, a large tumour pressing on 

 the upper and posterior extremity of the left hemisphere. 

 Whether the tumour was a partly organised clot I leave to 

 abler hands than mine to determine, as, after showing it to 

 Professor J. S. Gamgee, it was put into a box and sent off 

 at once to Edinburgh. I may, however, venture to state my 

 opinion, that the tumour was not of recent origin, as the 

 brain was absorbed by the long-continued pressure of the 

 mass. I have not disturbed the brain itself at all, so there 

 may be some other pathological curiosity of which I am 

 unaware at present." 



" In my opinion, attacks of apoplexy, such as the one 

 above described, occur in the horse most frequently as the 

 result of injury, and the fact that the subject of the above 

 case was vicious would appear to bear out such a supposition. 

 The last case I had was in a mare, to which I was called 

 in the last stage of an attack of colic, and by violently 

 knocking herself about in the stall, effusion of blood had 

 occurred below the crura cerebri, which gave rise to symp- 

 toms of coma and death. 



" Mr Parker's case is one of old and, probably, relapsing 

 apoplexy, arid this opinion I form from the following 



