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PARALYSIS. 
The mare did not appear to suffer much pain, notwithstanding 
which I gave the owner but faint hopes of her recovery. 
She continued in this state for several days, when death 
closed the scene. 
I did not attend the autopsy ; but the owner, anxious to 
discover the cause of her suffering, had her opened in his 
presence, and upon tracing the course of the oesophagus he 
found an egg firmly imbedded in the tube, a few inches before 
its termination in the stomach. Its shell was unbroken, 
and it entirely closed the passage. Subsequently it trans- 
pired that the egg had been given by the carter under the 
impression that it would improve the condition of the 
animal. 
I send you a portion of the oesophagus with the egg in 
situ. 
[Cases of this description are not very unfrequent. Here 
we have another instance of the sacrifice of an animal to the 
ignorance of a farmer’s servant. The chief point of interest 
in the specimen was the position of the egg. It was lying 
with its long axis across the oesophagus, and was so firmly 
fixed as to prevent its being removed from its position unless 
it was first broken. We were, however, unwilling to do this, 
preferring rather to add the specimen in its perfect state to 
our collection.] 
CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCES OF PARALYSIS; 
WITH REFLECTIONS ON MR. SMALL’S CASES. 
By J. Storrer, Y.S., Turriff. 
I send you the present communication under what I be- 
lieve to be a very humble sense of duty. Indeed, I may say 
that I think myself, and other members of the profession, 
who have not given notice of the epidemics that prevail in 
our respective districts, have been somewhat negligent of our 
duty to the profession. The communication from Mr. 
M. Small, on Paraplegia, in your September number, has 
led me to make the foregoing remarks, as, from the general 
description of the symptoms which is given, I am led to believe 
that the disease is identical with one that has been very 
common in Aberdeenshire for eleven or twelve years past. 
The first case narrated by Mr. Small is a worse one than 
