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NEW EPIDEMIC AMONG HORSES. 
and she was dragged into an adjoining field, where I found 
her lying prostrate, and although covered over with straw, 
shivering from head to foot from a cold rain. No power of 
sensation or of motion in the hind extremities existed; and the 
pulse numbered 90. Neither the servants or neighbours 
having any better means of bleeding her, a piece of the poor 
animal’s tail had been chopped off before I arrived. This 
barbarous treatment, together with the stimulant adminis- 
tered, so aggravated the disease that I pronounced the case 
a hopeless one. We, nevertheless, had the poor animal taken 
carefully home in a float, where the greatest attention was 
paid to her, but without avail, as she died on the third day 
from the attack. 
Sectio cadaveris . — Although a very careful examination was 
made, I could not find any lesion which would account for 
the symptoms or death of the animal. The lungs were 
slightly congested, and the bladder was full of urine, besides 
which there was, however, nothing remarkable. 
Case 2. — The other animal of Mr. Feehan’s, affected 
with the same disease at the same time, was a strong 
four-year-old gray mare worth fifty or sixty guineas, — I 
found the disease fully developed. She staggered in her 
gait, and could not walk straight forward, the power of both 
hind extremities being partially lost. I bled her copiously 
from both jugulars at once; had the back and loins stimu- 
lated ; extremities bathed in hot water and bandaged ; and 
the bowels relieved as far as practicable by glysters. My 
assistant remained with her all night to administer sedative 
medicine every three hours, and to see that she had nothing 
of any kind given her either to eat or drink. By these mea- 
sures we subdued the disease, and on the evening of the next 
day she was so much better as to be able to walk slowly home, 
and ultimately recovered. 
Case 3. — The next case that came under my notice was 
that of a three-year-old colt, at Killencool, near Dundalk, the 
property of Trevor Wright, Esq. He was seized with the 
disease at grass on the 4th ult., and was observed to f, rock on 
his hind end when he moved/ 5 as the steward said, “ and 
several times to nearly fall down.’ 5 He was taken into a 
loose box and bled. 
I found the animal on my arrival, as if in good health, 
feeding greedily on cut grass; but on walking him out the 
affection was at once manifest, as he could not turn sharply 
round without great danger of tumbling. Active medical 
treatment was immediately adopted, and the muzzle applied. 
Next day on my visit I ascertained that he had fallen, or 
