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CASE OF VOMITING IN THE HOUSE. 
By J. Meyrick, M.R.C.V.S., Newtown. 
At the latter end of last August, I was sent for by a 
farmer living near Bwlch y Ffridd, a few miles from this 
town, to see a cart-mare which had just been vomiting about 
a bucketful of food through the nostrils and mouth . I asked 
the ow-ner particularly if he was certain that the food had 
come through the mouth ? and in reply he assured me that it 
did. The mare appeared to be in perfect health in all other 
respects ; and the farmer told me that he had kept her for 
several years, and she had never had a similar attack but 
once, which was about a month before I saw her. 
I gave 
Solutio Aloes, f^vij ; 
Extract. Hyoscyamise, I n kaustus. 
and ordered her to be fed on gruel and bran mashes for a day 
or two. She has continued quite well ever since. The mare 
had been living upon grass when attacked, and I have 
thought that the vomiting might have been caused by her eat- 
ing some poisonous plant ; but I cannot account for the food 
coming through her mouth, and her being in perfect health 
both before and after the attacks. 
CASE OF PABAPLEGIA IN A DOG. 
By the Same. 
In September, 1855, I happened to be attending some 
horses at a gentleman’s house, and saw a terrier dog be- 
longing to the groom, w'hich w^as completely paralysed in the 
hind quarters, the consequence, and not an uncommon one, 
of distemper. 
The animal had acquired the strange habit, howxver, 
which I have seen before in the same disease, of walking on 
his fore feet with the hind quarters balanced above his head ! 
I made a tincture of nux vomica, of w'hich I gave so much as 
contained the twenty-fourth part of a grain of strychnine daily 
for two months. At the termination of that time the dog had 
perfectly recovered, and was able to follow his master on 
horseback for miles. 
