472 PALSY IN FOUR YOUNG BULLS AND A HEIFER. 
limbs : their breathing was accelerated and laborious ; the skin 
hot and dry ; the pulse frequent, but not hard ; the sensibility as 
usual, and no impairment of the digestive functions. The fourth, 
hot quite so bad, was got with some difficulty to the stable. 
On inquiring into the case, I learned that they had been ac- 
customed to sleep in the field, and that, being driven on the pre- 
ceding night into fresh pasture in which were other beasts, a 
great quarrel had arisen among them, and that these young ones 
had been very much heated and fatigued, and were found in the 
morning in the state in which I saw them. 
Never having met with palsy in animals so young, or pro- 
duced so suddenly, I thought that this loss of power would be 
only temporary, and was occasioned by their exerting themselves 
so violently in weather more than usually hot; and, having often 
seen beasts when travelling and exhausted by heat and fatigue 
apparently in the same condition, and recovering after a few hours 
rest, I expressed my opinion that this would be the case here. 
I bled them moderately, had them well rubbed down, and gave 
them frequently vinegar mixed with an equal quantity of water. 
I saw them again in the evening, but neither of them was up: 
they had attempted to get up several times, and two of them had 
effected their purpose and staggered a few paces. I ordered that 
the treatment should be continued, and that they should be left 
in the field all night, in the hope that the cold air would refresh 
them and restore their strength. 
29^. — I was surprised not only to find the three bulls just 
where we left them, but the fourth had fallen, and was as help- 
less as the rest ; and a heifer that was in the same field was 
staggering about similarly affected. I carefully examined them : 
the loss of power was greater than on the preceding day, and 
the sensibility was evidently diminished; still I could not help 
believing that the disease was of an inflammatory character. 
Nevertheless I was compelled, in order to satisfy the proprietor, 
and that the whole responsibility of that which might happen 
should not rest on me, to give them wine in order to support their 
strength ; but, at the same time, I bled them all, and ordered 
frictions of camphorated spirit and hot vinegar to be rubbed over 
the loins. No amendment took place during the day, but the 
loss of motion and the insensibility of the hind limbs became 
more complete, and sensibility seemed to be diminishing in the 
fore limbs, while the discharge of the urine and dung were not 
effected without considerable difficulty. Perhaps on this ac- 
count evident tympanitis began to appear. 
Wishing to excite some cutaneous perspiration, I ordered the 
patients to be well clothed during the night; but 1 was afraid to 
