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her hind limbs, and that with considerable violence, but they had 
lost all feeling ; remedial measures appearing to have no effect, the 
cow was destroyed. The lumbar portion of the spinal cord was 
very red on its superior part, and the fasciculi were injured for the 
space of two inches ; the lower fasciculi presented no other altera- 
tion than a yellow tint, which was perceived through the whole 
course of the spinal marrow. Can anything be more decisive ? 
Loss of Feeling and Motion. — The hind limbs of a seven-year 
old horse were entirely deprived of feeling and the power of motion; 
the animal lingered five days ; he seemed, to suffer little, and he 
was anxious to eat. The whole of the spinal marrow was softened 
and semifluid, from the tenth dorsal vertebra to the lumbar enlarge- 
ment inclusive. 
Take an example from Professor Renault. A horse injured in 
casting was kept during a month ; the power of motion in the hind 
extremities was gone from the beginning ; that of feeling gradually 
ceased, but the horse continued in good spirits and fed well. He 
was at length destroyed. The spinal marrow at the bending of the 
neck was softened and changed to a pultaceous and red matter for 
about two inches in extent ! 
Mr. Morgan congratulated Mr. Greaves on his scientific paper ; 
but was sorry he had not brought before the Association some new 
and more effectual mode of treating these cases, believing it no 
satisfaction to the owner to take him a piece of the spinal cord, 
asking him to look what a beautiful specimen had been got from 
his horse. 
Mr. Greaves replied to his friend Mr. Morgan critically yet 
amicably, in the same strain, and said he would be very glad to 
hear if Mr. Morgan had been more successful, and by what means. 
The discussion was carried on by all present for a considerable 
time, and until our Manchester friends were compelled to leave, all 
agreeing that it was necessary to remove the pressure from the 
nerve-tissue, whether that pressure be caused by extravasated 
blood, serum, a tumour, or, as is frequently the case in black horses 
used for funeral work and wearing heavy bridles, by external agents. 
The treatment would include antiphlogistics, viz., blood letting, 
cathartics, and counter-irritation, to be followed by strychnia. 
Belladonna is believed to be of great service by Mr. P. Taylor 
in arresting inflammation in the medulla spinalis. 
Mr. T. Taylor related a most interesting case of a ’bus horse 
which fell in the street, and was at first considered to have broken 
the back, the tail and legs being quite pendulous. He applied the 
catheter, from which flowed a large quantity of bloody urine ; had 
the animal slung, and gave a dose of aloes. The animal was on 
her legs walking about and well the following day, proving to Mr. 
Taylor how careful a practitioner ought to be in diagnosing a case 
to be broken back. 
Cases were related by most of the members present, after which 
Mr. Storrar proposed, and Mr. G. Hayes seconded, a vote of thanks 
