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PARAPLEGIA IN A MARE. 
various kinds — and after this follows the complete cessation of 
power. 
There is one history of palsy connected with parturition 
upon record in the French veterinary journals. An abridg- 
ment of it may not be uninteresting, particularly as giving a 
somewhat graphic sketch of the French mode of treatment in 
these cases.] Y. 
A CASE OF PARAPLEGIA IN A MARE. 
By M. Hure, M. V. 8 th Cuirassiers. 
April 24, 1836. — I was requested to attend on a mare with 
paraplegia. She had foaled three days before. An 'aromatic 
vinous drink had been afterwards administered, and repeated on 
the following day ; and on the day on which the second drink was 
given, and the day succeeding to that, she did not cease to worry 
herself by lying down, and immediately getting up again. About 
twelve hours before I saw her there was evident weakness of the 
hind limbs : she staggered at every motion, and at length fell with- 
out the power to rise. 
On my arrival I found her lying on the litter with her eyes 
half-closed — redness of the conjunctiva and pituitary membrane — 
pulse hard and quick — respiration laborious — skin very sensible to 
the touch, and especially about her hind extremities — constant 
agitation of her fore limbs — refusal of solid food — excessive thirst — 
— urine scanty, turbid, and dark-coloured, and obstinate constipa- 
tion, which rendered the extraction of the hard and dry excrements 
that were accumulated in the intestines absolutely necessary. 
We repeatedly attempted to raise her, but without success. The 
secretion of milk having diminished, or almost ceased, we procured 
for the young one a foster-mother. I immediately bled her, and 
repeated the bleeding at night, and I inserted two setons on the 
inside of each thigh. On account of the obstinate constipation, I 
gave three ounces of the sulphate of soda, and employed emollient 
injections. I ordered that nothing should be given to her but 
thin gruel with nitre dissolved in it, and some warm sacking placed 
over the loins. 
2 5th. — A little amendment — the respiration was more easy — the 
membranes not quite so red — the pulse, not quite so hard, retained 
its quickness — the faeces were a little loosened, but the urine was 
deeper in colour, and voided with pain. She made repeated but 
useless efforts to rise. 
Three pounds of blood were taken from each saphena vein — 
three ounces of sulphate of soda administered, and the nitrated 
