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AN ACCOUNT OF A GRUB IN THE CEREBELLUM 
OF A HORSE. 
By Mr. J. Rose, F.S., Worcester . 
On the 2d of July, 1828, I was requested to attend a three- 
year-old colt, labouring under the following symptoms: — 
Loss of voluntary power of the left extremities, therefore unable 
to stand without support — inclination of the head to the same 
side — an oblique direction of the eyes — no delirium — pulse 60 — 
breathing little interrupted — fseces and urine passed without 
difficulty — extremities and skin warm — and the animal eating 
when food was lifted to his mouth. No external injury could be 
detected. 
There was little variation in the symptoms until the 11th, 
when, on endeavouring to raise him, he died. 
Treatment . — Repeated general and local bleeding, active 
purging, setons and blisters to the head and neck. 
Post-mortem examination , twenty-four hours after death. — 
On dividing the head from the neck at the first joint, three or 
four ounces of dark-coloured serous fluid escaped. On removing 
the covering of the brain, three coagula of blood were seen on 
the right side of the cerebellum. On raising it, another pre- 
sented itself, out of which crawled a grub (in size much re- 
sembling those taken from nuts, but much more transparent). 
There was considerable extravasation of blood into the mem- 
branes beneath it ; also an effusion of the same kind as that 
already mentioned in the whole cavity of the cranium. 
The cerebrum was healthy, excepting that its vessels were 
more turgid than usual. The contents of the thorax and ab- 
domen were quite healthy. 
It may be well to observe, that Mr. Kitsell, surgeon, of Droit- 
wich, was present at the dissection, and that 1 have the grub in 
my possession. 
ACCOUNT OF A SIMILAR CASE. 
By John Tomes, Esq., F.£., Pershore. 
I subjoin the undermentioned case, which happened in the 
autumn of the year 1827, as analagous to that of Mr. Rose. 
I was then assisting my father, who with myself attended the 
subject in question, which was a brown pony thirteen hands high, 
the property of Dr. Stenson, Bourton-on-the- Water. 
