506 TREMBLING THORTER ILL HEMIPLEGIA, ETC. 

 TREMBLING 



Is a somewhat badly defined disease. The term is some- 

 times applied by shepherds to almost any internal inflam- 

 mation, the onset of which is characterised by a severe 

 shivering fit. It is sometimes applied to a form of louping 

 ill, when that is attended by marked muscular tremblings. 



THORTER ILL. 



This is a parasitic disease, in which the hydatid is situated 

 in the cervical portion of the spinal cord, and is attended 

 by more or less paralysis of one or both sides of the body. 



HEMIPLEGIA 



Is a rare affection in the lower animals, and is commonly 

 dependent on effusion of blood on one side of the brain, 

 or some lesion of one-half of the spinal cord. According 

 to the cause, it may affect one entire half of the body, in- 

 cluding the head and even the intercostal muscles, or it 

 may be confined to particular portions of one side of the 

 body, and especially such as derive their nerves from that 

 part of the spinal cord situated behind where the morbid 

 lesion exists. 



CANCER OF THE SPINE. 



A remarkable case of this description was published 

 in the Veterinarian, 1856, by Mr Hunting, with notes 

 of my own as to the cadaveric lesions. Mr Hunting 

 says : 



" On the 10th of September 1855, 1 was requested to see a chestnut 

 mare, the property of Mr George Keed, of Seaham Harbour. She had 

 been unwell for ten or twelve days, with cough and sore throat ; her 

 neck was likewise very stiff, but her appetite had remained good up to 

 yesterday, when she became tympanitic, and suffered intense pain. 



