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incomplete hemiplegia, occurring in a six year old gelding, sup- 

 posed to have been brought on by overfeeding, followed by a 

 hard drive. The off side, which was affected, was insensible to the 

 prick of a pin, and felt several degrees colder than the other ; 

 the head was drawn into an unnatural position, partly round to 

 the affected side, and the patient seemed unable to straighten the 

 neck ; the eye on this side inclined backward, and the lower lip 

 and right ear hung pendulous. This horse was left one evening 

 in an empty barn, as usual, and next morning the owner called 

 and informed us that the patient had fallen during the night, and 

 broke his neck ; that the head was doubled completely round on 

 the side of the neck, and lay underneath him. We did not see 

 the patient after the accident, but from the man's description of 

 the position of the horse, concluded that he must have stumbled 

 against something during the night, and in the fall dislocated the 

 first cervical vertebra at its occipital articulation. 



Variety 2. Paraplegia. — This affects the posterior half of 

 the body, and the subject is found squatting on his haunches, at 

 the same time making incessant efforts with his fore extremities 

 to raise the body ; but his efforts all prove of no avail ; and after 

 the primary excitement has subsided, he will be found sitting 

 dog fashion, merely making an occasional effort to get up. In 

 this condition the urine and excrement often pass involuntarily. 

 Paraplegia generally results from some injury to the spinal cord, 

 received in slipping down on the pavements, or otherwise, or else 

 through violent efforts at heavy draught ; thus injuring the 

 spinal marrow, either by laceration, or effusion into its canal. 

 Such cases generally terminate fatally. 



Variety 3. Paralysis partialis. — This is identical with pa- 

 ralysis facialis of the human family, and consists in distortion of 

 the parts about the head and face : ordinarily the muscles of the 

 face are drawn upwards — one side only ; but in some parts of 

 the "Western States such subjects have a most unearthly appear- 

 ance about the face ; it seems to affect them on both sides of the 

 head, so that the upper lip is doubled completely upwards, and 

 both eyelids are raised, so as to expose the greater portion of the 

 upper part of the eye : there is, however, in the latter case, 

 tremulous agitation of the head and limbs, and sometimes of the 

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