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tiously, and fairly touched his forehead before he moved. I never 
saw a case of this kind before in a bird. Try the effect of strych- 
nia. The nerve affected does not proceed from the spinal cord, 
but still the strychnia may have some power over it. It is, at all 
events, a legitimate experiment. Give him one-eighth of a grain 
morning and night, in a bit of meat. 
September 2d . — I do not see the slightest difference. Continue 
medicine. 
11th . — No change. We will not give him up yet. Continue 
the medicine while he will bear it. 
2 5th . — I do fancy that there is a little improvement. Give one- 
third of a grain of the strychnia morning and night. 
October 1 6th . — He bears the strychnia well, and I do sometimes 
think is improving. Two-thirds of a grain in the course of a day — 
this is a fearful quantity, and yet I have not seen one of those 
exacerbations of which some of our French brethren speak. 
November 2d . — Not much change. He strangely bears his me- 
dicine. We will try this case on to the very last, and the result 
shall be honestly recorded. 
October 3 d . — Another of our birds attracted my attention. It 
was a cassowary. It has not fed well — there has been a depressed 
look, and he now begins to step short and stagger as he goes. 
There is loss of power over the hind limbs. Give him four grains 
of calomel and two of emetic tartar. 
6th . — The medicine has considerably purged him. Give him a 
quarter of a grain of the strychnia morning and night. 
10/A. — -We shall certainly lose this bird. He is weak, and losing 
flesh sadly. Continue the medicine, and coax him with every 
kind of food. 
1 6th . — His appetite is returned, and he eats every thing that is 
set before him, but, except in order to get his food, he can scarcely 
be induced to move. He has that peculiar gait which indicates 
loss of power from paralysis more than from debility. . 
November 2d . — There is no change, except that the rapid ema- 
ciation seems to be arrested. 
One other case the Editor will refer to. A gentleman by whom 
he had been employed many a year while in the practice of his 
profession, called on him with an old and favourite Italian grey- 
hound that was becoming evidently and rapidly paralytic. Being 
restricted from giving advice within a certain distance of the me- 
tropolis, he refused, although pressed hard, to give any opinion. 
In the evening the gentleman returned, and, after much entreaty, 
prevailed on him to prescribe. He recommended that one-fourth of 
a grain of the strychnia should be given, and repeated occasionally 
