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be such as, to lead the veterinarian to imagine the symptoms are 

 arising from extravasation of blood, immediate blood-letting, to the 

 extent the animal's age and condition will tolerate, will be proper, 

 and this may be succeeded by a terebinthinate or opiate drink : the 

 twofold object being to arrest haemorrhage, should it be going on, 

 and promote the absorption of the blood already effused. In a 

 case in which much irritation prevails, or where there is any sign 

 of inflammatory action, or where plethora is an attendant, a full 

 and early blood-letting is likewise peremptorily called for; and 

 this ought without hesitation to be repeated, providing the febrile 

 symptoms do not give way. The next thing to be done is, to ad- 

 minister an aloetic enema, to clear out the posterior bowels; and 

 this may be succeeded by a dose of cathartic medicine. In regard 

 to local applications, in paraplegia, I know of nothing so likely to 

 prove of service as virulent stimulation of the loins : I have seen 

 the mustard-plaster — which, to render it speedier and sharper in 

 its operation, may be composed with oil of turpentine — when 

 spread upon the loins shorn of their hair, act like a charm : no 

 sooner has it come into full action than the patient, to the surprise 

 of all around, has risen upon his legs and commenced feeding ; sig- 

 nifying, that not only has the power of motion been restored to 

 him, but that he has likewise been relieved of his pain. The 

 acetum cantharidis might likewise prove a very good application. 

 I should say this would form a proper case for dry cupping ; or, 

 upon the bare skin, even the scarificators may be employed with 

 advantage, the object being not so much the blood abstracted as 

 the counter-irritation produced. Afterwards, and especially in 

 chronic cases, setons may be inserted with a remote prospect of 

 considerable benefit. In all cases the bowels should be kept 

 soluble by enemata during the continuance of the palsy. Mr. 

 Read, the ingenious inventor of the improved stomach and enema 

 syringes, has recently called upon me with an apparatus for giving 

 a horse a steam-vapour-bath ; a most desirable thing, certainly, 

 could it be brought — which I fully believe it can be — into practice, 

 and very likely to prove beneficial in cases of paralysis. 



In hemiplegia and general paralysis — in any case, in fact, in 

 which the brain is the seat of injury or disease, to that part, and 



