388 PAEALTSIS. 



character ; and where the cause is continuous, unless it can be 

 destroyed, or its operation prevented, our curative efforts are 

 certain to prove abortive — no matter whether the disorder be 

 Tetanus, or, in iact, disease of any kind. 



PARALYSIS. 



PAUAiiTSis, or Palsy, as it is commonly designated, is far 

 from being a common disease. It generally attacks the animal 

 in a very sudden manner, and from the particular parts of the 

 body in which it is liable to manifest itself, so it is named. 

 With reference to the human being. Palsy is arranged as pre- 

 senting itself under four varieties, namely : — 



1 Paealxsis Partialis, or Partial Palsy — as when one 

 or two muscles only are affected. 



2. Pabalysis' Hemiplegia — as when one half of the body 

 longitudinally is affected ; or, in other words, when one side of 

 the horse is affected. 



3. Paeaitsis Paeapiegia — Palsy of one half of the body 

 in a transverse direction — as when both hind limbs are affected 

 and the rest of the body is free from the disease. 



4. Paeaixsis Vejsbmata, or Palsy proceeding from the 

 animal having partaken of some poisonous drug. This is a rare 

 form of the disease, but it occurs occasionally, and for a very 

 instructive case of the kind see Veterinary Secord for 1848, 

 page 39. 



Paetiax Palsx is occasionally present in the horse ; and 

 one of its most common forms is where the muscles and lips of 

 the face become affected in consequence of the facial nerves 

 being pressed upon. 



Symptoms. — The lips hang pendulous ; the patient experi- 

 ences great diiEculty in eating — during the act of seizing the- 



