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corneal ulcer, the size of a split bean, had developed in the right eye. 

 The mouth was hot and dry, salivation completely in abeyance. 

 There was moderate bilateral paralysis of both lips, grinding of the 

 jaws, and from time to time a slight muscular spasm appeared to flit 

 over the face. The near hind leg had become affected almost to the 

 same degree as the off, but both still responded to stimuli, such as the 

 prick of a pin, except over the upper part of each quarter in the 

 region shown in the diagram (shaded). For the previous twenty- 

 four hours the animal had shown regularly recurring periods of excite- 

 ment, moving the legs rapidly, as if at full gallop, for a minute or two, 

 and then subsiding into quiet. Latterly the fore-limbs alone had 

 been moved, the hind limbs being partially flexed, and kept either 

 quite still or only moving passively. Pricking the skin of the hind 



Fig. 66. — Liver with cysts. 



limbs at any point outside the shaded area produced an exaggerated 

 movement of the panniculus, or in some cases contraction of the limb. 

 That sensation in the hind limb was not entirely destroyed, however, 

 was shown by the fact that a sharp prick also excited contractions 

 in the fore-limbs. There was local sweating under the arms and in 

 the flank. The tail was partially paralysed. 



The bowels were acting slightly. The kidneys had acted twice on 

 the 3rd, and once on the morning of the 4th. Having regard to the 

 sudden onset, the almost total absence of fever and of delirium, the 

 failure to detect local injury, and the rapid course, the diagnosis was 

 haemorrhage at the base of the brain — an opinion that proved far from 

 correct. The prognosis was necessarily very unfavourable, and, in point 

 of fact, the animal died about 9 p.m. on the evening of the 4th June. 



