312 ANATOMY OF THE FOltE FOOT OF THE OX. 
oxen are by no means so subject to lameness as horses; they 
are not, however, entirely exempt. Ligamentous lamenesses are 
comparatively the most frequent, and, as oxen are shod for work- 
ing, they must be subject to some of the maladies wffiich the 
application of this useful invention unfortunately produces. It 
is, then, by no means an unimportant desideratum to obtain a 
full account of the parts below the knee. Such is the object of 
this essay, which the writer has endeavoured to render as correct 
as his moderate abilities, the novelty of the subject, and the un- 
broken nature of the ground, he has had to tread will allow. And 
if it should have the effect of assisting the student in his dissec- 
tions, or smoothing in a slight degree the rugged path of anatomi- 
cal pursuits, he will not consider his labour to have been uselessly 
bestowed, or this humble essay to have been written in vain. 
A CASE OF HEMIPLEGIA IN A COLT. 
By Mr. Robert Read, C rediton. 
On Wednesday, March 12th, 1834, I was sent for in haste to 
the farm-yard of R. Tuckfield, Esq. of Fulford-park, to look at 
a colt that had fallen down with some sudden seizure half an 
hour before. On my arrival I found him again standing ; the 
pulse 56, and full ; the head hanging down ; the right eye amau- 
rotic; the pupil expanded to its utmost: there was general trem- 
bling ; the countenance expressed great terror ; and the tail was 
slightly elevated. On his attempting to walk, he suddenly fell, 
and after much scrambling got up again : his gait w r as afterwards 
very rambling, and occasionally his fetlocks bent under him, and 
he walked on them. 
I ordered him to be put into a loose shed, which we accom- 
plished with some difficulty, he having repeatedly fallen before 
we could get him there. If he in the least degree overbalanced 
himself, he had no power to recover himself, but would fall heavily 
on the right side. He would drink a very liquid mash, which 
was all he was allowed to have. 
On the fourth day I had him taken out. He could not walk 
any better, and in scrambling about the yard fell several times, 
and always on the right side. He had no power of lifting his off 
legs over any uneven surface, but only that of dragging them. It 
seemed like the useless half of an animal joined to a living one. 
The treatment was bleeding and purgatives. In about fourteen 
days he slowly began to improve, until at last he was able to be 
turned out; but up to the present time he has an occasional 
limp or twitch in th£ off fore leg, which does not shew any’dis- 
position to leave him. 
