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PARALYSIS OF THE HIND LIMB. 
its normal position, it is able to sustain weight in the usual way, 
because the extensors of the stifle fix that joint, and with it the other 
joints of the limb. Anaesthesia of the skin of the lower parts of the 
limh accompanies this condition. 
Moller saw three cases of ischiatic paralysis in dogs, one in a St. 
Bernard, one in a bull-dog, and one in a working-dog. (In Berlin, and 
throughout Germany, large numbers of dogs are employed for drawing 
Fig. 255.—Paralysis of tlie anterior crural nerve. 
light carts, sometimes singly, sometimes in pairs. They are of no 
determinate breed, and vary from the size of a collie up to that of 
a boar-hound.) In one case the dog had fallen from a window, and at 
first showed complete paraplegia, which, however, disappeared after 
a few days, leaving one limb affected with sciatic lameness, which also 
disappeared soon afterwards. The second dog became affected during 
convalescence from distemper, and in the third the lameness had no 
apparent cause. 
In addition, paraplegia is by no means uncommon in dogs, and even 
in horses; in the hind limb the great sciatic nerve is affected, and in 
the opposite fore limb the axillary plexus. Such cases are clearly of 
cerebral origin. The condition described by Beel as paralysis of the hip 
nerves appears to have been paraplegia. Friis saw paralysis of the right 
fore and left hind limbs, which was not improved after three months’ 
