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tend to weaken the vertebrae. Too much exercise, 

 and when purging is checked too rapidly, will produce 

 paralysis. 



Symptoms. — The part affected becomes powerless, 

 attended sometimes with an unusual shaking motion, 

 most frequently of the hinder limbs. In extreme 

 cases, the animal has been affected inwardly. 



Treatment. — Old horses can rarely be cured ; es- 

 pecially if over- worked when young. Should tbe 

 disease appear in the younger animal, more hopes m^^v 

 be entertained of a cure. The treatment must, how- 

 ever, depend greatly upon the cause or the extent of 

 the injury. The following purge may be tried suc- 

 cessfully : — 



Ginger - . - _ 2 drachms, 



Castile Soap - - - 2 drachms, 



Barbadoes Aloes - - - 8 drachms, 



made into a ball. The spine may be rubbed with 



warm terebinthinated embrocation. 



Camphor - - - _ I ounce. 



Common Soap - - - 1 ounce, 



Oil of Turpentine - - - 4 ounces, 

 will be found a useful embrocation, from its stimulating 

 nature ; this were best applied till the horse feels sen- 

 sible of the parts affected. Internal remedies are not 

 in general use, although strychnos mix vomica^ (vulg., 

 crow-fig) , has been used with some success ; com- 

 mencing with about eight grains, and gradually in- 

 creasing it, taking care not to give the animal so much 

 as will depress the action of the pulse, and create 

 torpor. 



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