392 PAEAIYSIS. 



Strychnia. — Before having recourse to Strychnia let the 

 malady have taken on a definite form, and the system have 

 become accustomed to the change. Strychnia will produce little 

 or no good if resorted to at the onset of the disease. Com- 

 mence vrith scruple doses of the remedy, prepared and used as 

 directed at page 390. Stronger doses may be given as the sys- 

 tem becomes inured to its action. The dose may be gradually 

 increased from drachm doses of the 1st trituration to 5-grain 

 doses of strychnia untriturated. 



Cold Water Douche. — In having recourse to the Douche, 

 contrive to let the vrater descend upon the patient from a good 

 height ; and immediately the operation is completed, cover the 

 a nim al thoroughly and closely with thick woollen rugs, and 

 allow them to remain upon the body until warmth and dryness 

 are restored to the skin. 



Paealtsis PAEAPXEaiA, — Two varieties of transverse para- 

 lysis are occasionally presented to notice : one where the loss 

 of motor power is complete — (a) loss of power in the hind 

 limbs from fracture of the spinal column ; and a second, where 

 the motor power is partly lost — (b) loss of motor power in the 

 hind limbs from temporary exhaustion. 



Teeatmekt.— Loss of motor power, as a sequence to fracture 

 of the spinal column, cannot be cured. It is beyond the power 

 of a veterinary siu-geon, and the aid of veterinary surgery, to 

 cure fracture of the spine. The sooner an animal so circum- 

 stanced is destroyed the better. When arising, however, as an 

 effect of inordinate labour, or struggling long and violently, in 

 consequence of the animal faUing into a ditch and being unable 

 to escape, the probability is that good may be efiected. 



