544 DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 



HYSTERIA. 



Dr. Cullen has described four species under the genus 

 Hysteria^ viz., hysteria chlorotica, hysteria leucorrhcea ; 

 hysteria menorrhagia ; hysteria libidinosa, of which nympho- 

 mania denominates excess. 



Windsor Barracks, May 8th, 1850. — A case of the 

 latter has just occurred in a mare in C troop (No. 27). 

 This mare has been noted for being more than usually 

 excitable at the spring of the year, and during the horsing 

 season ; and appears to have shown this the more apparently, 

 from the circumstance of her being known to be, by nature^ 

 a violent, highly-excitable mare. She has often bolted and 

 run away with her rider, and on one occasion started out of 

 the ranks of the Queen's guard, in St. James's Park, and 

 ran with her rider against the mortar on the parade in front 

 of the Horse Guards. She is now in the greatest state of 

 excitement ; is continually switching her tail about ; ejecting, 

 vagince, from time to time, somewhere about half a pint of 

 a yellow creamy matter ; having her eyes full of the aspect 

 of wild suspicion, appearing as if starting from her head ; 

 and is exceedingly dangerous of approach : she being 

 continually in motion, and on the watch for any one who 

 comes near her. By quiet means, she was, after a time, 

 bridled, and led by a man who was a stranger to her, (for 

 she would not suffer her own man to come near her) from her 

 stable into a box; and then she was tied up with two 

 halters, to stand, without food and water, until her maniacal 

 fit should subside. This, however, availed but little or 

 nothing. She was put to horse — to a stallion at Cumberland 

 Lodge — whom she took on two occasions ; which tranquillised 

 her. But still she remained fidgety and restless, and on 

 that account was ultimately sold. 



Hurtrel d'Arboval asks, if the following case cannot 

 be considered of this nature. It occurred to M. Guillaume, 

 and was published in the ' Memoires de la Societe Royal et 

 Centrale d' Agriculture ' for 1825. 



