WOK MS— PARALYSIS IN A HORSE. 629 
exist in great numbers they must be injurious, and constitute 
unsoundness. 
Worms in the Intestines of a Mare. 
A grey draught mare, four years old, the property of Mr. Wil- 
liamson, was admitted into the infirmary on the 26th of Feb., 
1842, in very low condition, and hide-bound. During the last 
twelve months she had frequent attacks of colic, and worms were 
occasionally voided in the excrement. She has a most voracious 
appetite. 
Treatment . — Put her on bran mashes, and give a moderate 
allowance of hay. 
March IsL — Administer a cathartic. On the next morning 
the medicine operated. Hundreds of ascarides were evacuated, 
also a number of the lumbrici-teres, one of which measured four- 
teen inches in length. 
3d . — Physic being set, give a worm-ball of ant. tart, et zingib. 
every morning fasting, and allow 61b. of oats twice in the day. 
12^. — Repeat the cathartic in twenty-four hours, Medicine 
operating, and great numbers of ascarides, &c. being evacuated, 
the same treatment was continued until the 22d, when another 
cathartic was given to her. 
23 d . — The physic is operating ; few worms are now to be 
seen, and those quite dead. Discontinue the worm-medicine, atid 
increase her feeding to 41b. of oats three times a-day. In six 
weeks she was discharged, greatly improved in condition and 
spirits. 
Paralysis in the Horse. 
The subject of this case was a valuable gig-horse, also the 
property of Mr. Williamson. He appeared to be stiff on all 
four feet as he stood in the stable, and was in evident pain, and 
trembled when he was taken out of it. 
From the above description l expected a case of founder; but 
on examination he presented the following symptoms: — Pulse 30; 
legs and feet very cold ; frightened and agitated when approached ; 
unwilling to allow his fore feet to be handled, and it was with 
difficulty he was backed out of the stall ; he then appeared to 
be almost completely paralysed in all his limbs, and was with 
difficulty kept from falling. I perceived his knees marked to- 
wards the right side ; also about an inch of abraded surface above 
the right orbital fossa, evidently shewing that the horse had 
fallen. There was no fracture on the forehead, but on applying 
the slightest pressure posterior to the occiput he fell backward as 
if he had been shot. 
