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ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
of this. The patient was shut out from all communication 
with his family and his children, yet his speech and intellects 
were unimpaired. It was, after a while, accidentally discovered 
that a small patch on the right cheek retained its sensibility ; 
and, by tracing letters on this spot, his wife and children were 
enabled to maintain some intercourse of ideas with him : at 
length, the palsy began to pervade the system of organic life, 
and he rapidly sunk, and died in a way dreadful to think of. 
Quadruped . — Of this kind of palsy our practice affords us very 
few instances, and that for reasons that will appear clearly 
enough as we proceed. General palsy, when it does occur, is 
produced by apoplexy ; it is one of the symptoms of apoplexy. 
The brain, compressed by an overwhelming discharge of blood 
to it, can no longer issue its mandates, or be sensible to impres- 
sions from without. But of Partial Paralysis we have 
plenty of cases in all our patients, and most untractable ones 
they are : sometimes they are fatal. An old pupil and valued 
friend of mine, Mr. Chapman, who kindly conducted my business 
for me when I was ill, was sent for, in order to examine a horse. 
The symptoms were, heat of mouth, heaving at the flanks, a 
hard and quick pulse, and the exhibition of great pain. As he 
stood by his side and looked at him, he observed some slight 
spasms of the left shoulder, and extending along the side. He 
naturally concluded that it was a case of pleurisy, and he bled 
the animal and gave fever medicine. 
On calling a few hours afterwards, he found the horse in still 
greater pain, and his left leg was becoming powerless. The horse 
could not bear upon it, and he shrunk at the slightest touch. 
There is a strange caprice about this. In many cases there is palsy 
of the sensitive as well as the motor nerves ; at other times the 
natural feeling remains, although the power of motion is lost: 
occasionally the sensibility is increased to an almost inconceivable 
degree : but generally both nerves are gradually involved, and 
share in the same loss of function. 
He soon after this fell, and beat himself dreadfully about. 
My young friend began to understand the case : he ordered 
the limb to be frequently fomented, he rubbed in a stimulating 
liniment all over it, and he gave a strong dose of physic. On the 
following day he began to give opium and spirit of nitrous ether. 
The horse had then been set on his legs with a great deal 
of difficulty ; he stood continually shifting his position, so far 
as he could do it with his hind feet, and trying in vain to rest 
a little of his weight on the affected limb. At length the power 
of the other leg began to fail, and he again fell down, and, 
unless forcibly held down, beat his head about, and fought and 
