NEPHRITIS AND PARAPLEGIA. 
541 
In addition to the measures adopted on the preceding evening, 
a pint and a half of oil was given, and a thick cloth placed over 
the loins. The animal was considerably agitated, with elevation 
at the flanks. 
At mid-day a second bleeding of three pounds only was 
effected. An ounce of ether was administered through the 
nasal cavities, it being impossible to make him swallow any 
thing through the medium of the mouth. Immediately after 
this a kind of crisis seemed to have arrived - the respiration was, 
if possible, more precipitate, and there was sighing and sobbing, 
with a roaring noise in the nasal cavities. He began to stag- 
ger, got himself into a corner, and appeared as if he would fall 
down in a fit. This, however, did not last more than a minute; 
after which a calm came gradually on, interrupted irom time to 
time by similar crises, but not so long, and during which the ani- 
mal looked mournfully at his flanks, placing his muzzle behind 
his elbow. 
In this situation of things, and in despite of the smallness of 
the pulse and the feebleness of the patient, we opened the two 
saphenas, for we feared a congestion of blood in the colon or the 
kidneys. The stream was slow, and with difficulty kept up; 
and we did not obtain more than four or five pounds. Neverthe- 
less, the animal was very much agitated — the respiration was fre- 
quent, and there were cold and abundant sweats. Four men were 
continually occupied in drying him, and they would not have 
succeeded in this had they not held heated irons in the neighbour- 
hood of the places that were thus covered with sweat. The 
flanks, the groins, the sheath, and the chest, were the parts on 
which the moisture was thrown out most plentifully. The 
patient made many vain efforts to evacuate his faeces, but 
nothing was expelled but a smaller or greater quantity of mucus. 
He could not retain an injection, however small in quantity it 
might be. His urine was voided with difficulty, and only a little 
at a time, but it was of its natural colour and quality. He often 
placed himself in a position to evacuate his urine, but he could 
not accomplish his object. We attempted to make him take a 
couple of ounces of syrup of white poppies, intending to follow it 
up with a second dose of the same quantity, but we could not 
accomplish it. The slightest constraint exasperated him, and pro- 
voked a series of convulsions like those that have been described. 
Notwithstanding his general feebleness, he could resist and 
beat us, and he could also walk very fairly. The head, the eyes, 
and ears, by their vivacity and action, gave but little intimation of 
suffering or of danger ; but the movements of the flanks and the 
alse of the nose announced a lesion of the nervous system which 
