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ing symptom for this remedy is that of involuntary emission of 

 urine when a paralytic patient coughs. 



Conium 3X in paralysis of the penis due to excessive coitus^ 

 such as that which occasionally arises in stallions when they have 

 served too many mares within a short period of time. 



Argentum 7iitricum 3X in paraplegia due to a fall in the hunt- 

 ing field, the horse having pitched on to his head in landing over 

 a big fence. 



Belladonyia 3X in paraplegia where the animal loses control over 

 his movements; this remedy should be used in the early stages of 

 the disease, especially when the whites of the eye are injected, 

 red streaks appear thereupon, and the pupils are dilated; inability 

 to bold water and considerable excitement are confirmatory 

 symptoms. 



LAMENESS. 



The detection of the seat of lameness is not nearly so easy as 

 many men who claim to have a fair knowledge of horses and their 

 ailments seem to imagine; and while the scope and general objects 

 of this work do not allow our dealing with the subject in any- 

 thing like an adequate manner, it is necessary that a word of 

 warning should be offered on the difficulties which are constantly 

 presenting themselves to the amateur horseman in correctly de- 

 termining the locality of the pain which causes a horse to go lame; 

 ior unless a man has some practical acquaintance with these diffi- 

 culties and is prepared to recognize that they exist, it will prove of 

 very little value for us to provide instructions as to treatment, 

 which is, in fact, the primary object of this work. In the first 

 place, it is essential that a correct opinion should be arrived at as 

 to whether the horse is lame of a fore limb or a hind one; to de- 

 termine this, the horse should be run in hand, at a slow pace, both 

 away from and towards the observer; in the case of a horse trot- 

 ting from you, that is lame of one of the fore limbs, the dropping 

 of the head gives a swaying motion to the body, which produces 

 an up and down motion to the quarters, which might lead one in- 

 experienced in testing such a case, to infer that the animal was 

 lame of one of the hind limbs; but when the horse comes towards 

 the observer it will be clear from the dropping of the head that it 

 is in one of the fore limbs; on the contrary, when the lameness is 



