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every motion. Whether my measures were not sufficiently 
active, or the inflammation bid defiance to controul, I lost my 
patient. 
Old, and abused carriage horses, with extensive anchylosis of 
the spine, frequently have a constrained and confined action, an 
inability to flex the spine or to move except bodily and like a 
deal board as it were ; and there is evident loss of motion and 
power. Look at this specimen of anchylosis of almost the whole 
of the spine, and you will see what I mean. 
There is a disease of another climate — Kumree — which is 
described as a weakness, or partial paralysis of the loins, and 
which is said by some to be connected with the presence of a 
minute worm in the anterior chamber of the eye. We shall 
inquire into this when the diseases of the ocular system come 
under notice. 
In our next lecture we shall have to take a very different view 
of palsy, as it appears in other patients. 
THREE CASES OF (EDEMA PRECEDED BY 
STRANGLES. 
By Mr. John Tombs, Per shore. 
CASE I. 
Oct. 2 Sth, 1834 . — A bay cart maTe, the property of a farmer, 
five miles hence, had strangles six weeks ago. Yesterday she 
was attacked with a sudden swelling in all four legs. When I 
saw her to-day the extremities were tremendously swollen ; the 
breathing laborious ; she was tucked up in the flanks ; fed sparing- 
ly ; there w r as intense redness of the inferior part of the Schnei- 
derian membrane ; and she walked very stiffly. Serum is oozing 
out of the vessels of the skin on the inside of the thighs in several 
places ; and there is a slight discharge from the seat of stran- 
gles. R cupri sulphatis 3ss, et zingiberis 3ij, to be given twice 
a-day, and a liberal allowance of corn. 
30tk . — Extremities more swollen. Pulse quickened ; appe- 
tite tolerably good. Insert rowel in breast, and give the sulphate 
of copper and ginger as before. 
3164. — Patient considerably worse ; a great swelling under the 
abdomen came on in the night ; pulse 90, and particularly soft ; 
nose frightfully swollen. I performed the operation of trache- 
otomy, to prevent immediate suffocation. Medicines given as 
before ; fomentations to the thighs ; liquor plumbi subacetatis 
