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down, rising again with great difficulty, and strong muscular 

 contortions are evident,-in fact, the symptoms resemble an acute 

 attack of inflammation of the bowels, or azoturia. Treatment.— 

 Nerve sedatives, such as chloral hydrate, belladonna, or hypodermic 

 injections of morphia, along with a good dose of opening medicine, such 

 as linseed or castor oil should be given. Hot water blankets should 

 be applied constantly to the back, and the rectum must be emptied by 

 the hand, and the urine drawn off by the catheter. From the effusion 

 which takes place in the spinal canal, the cases usually terminate 

 fatally, or at least, in paralysis. 



599. Paralysis, or Stroke.— This may be described as complete, 

 partial, local, or veflex, and 1^ a sudden loss of power, either with or 

 without sensation ; it may, however, come on gradually. Hemiplegia 

 is the term employed when only one side of the body is attacked ; and 

 Paraplegia when either the fore or hind part of the body is affected. 



600. Complete Paralysis is the term employed when motion and 

 sensation throughout the body are suddenly arrested, as in milk fever, 

 stomach staggers, acute lead poisoning, &c. 



601. Partial Paralysis is a term used when only part of the body 

 is affected. 



602. Local Paralysis means that only some of the muscles are 

 involved. This form is frequently seen after influenza, strangles, and 

 lightning shocks, when the muscles of the head and lips of the afl"ected 

 side hang loose and pendulous, the tongue also sometimes suffering. 

 The animal, on getting food into its mouth, has no power to roll it for 

 mastication. In these cases the food has to be removed by the hand. 



603. Reflex Paralysis.— This may arise from impaction of the 

 stomach and bowels of both cattle and horses. It is also caused by 

 pressure and obstruction in the urinary and generative organs. Cattle 

 will sometimes lie for four or five weeks before calving, without 

 having the power to rise, and, after parturition, get up without any 

 assistance. 



