ON THE DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CHORD, &C. 51 
against a totally unprovoked attack: but he promises that, 
henceforth, so far as he is concerned, a profession now rapidly 
increasing in public estimation shall not be disgraced by the violent 
and scurrilous manner in which its controversies are conducted. 
And now, “ and so say we all of us,” and to all our contribu- 
tors and readers, a happy new year to you. 
God's benison go with you, and with those 
Who would make good of bad, and friends of foes. 
ISxtvacta* 
On the Diseases of the Spinal Chord and its 
Membranes in the Horse. 
By M. Bouley, Jun . 
(Recueil de Medecine Vettrinaire , 1830.) 
[Continued from vol. iii, p. 594.] 
We beg to apologize to our readers for so long discontinuing 
our translation of some of the most valuable essays which the 
French periodicals have for many years contained, viz. “M. 
Bouley’s Account of the Diseases of the Spinal Chord.” We are 
' really ashamed to think that we must refer so far back as to the 
third volume of our periodical for the first two of these excellent 
papers. Mr. Chapman’s case of inflammation of the membranes 
of the spinal chord, inserted in The Veterinarian for 
November, will afford an illustration of and commentary on some 
parts of M. Bouley’s essay.— Edit. 
The diseases of the spinal chord and its envelopes have not 
yet been sufficiently studied in veterinary medicine for it to be 
possible to describe the particular symptoms of each. Besides, 
these affections being rarely isolated, I do not think that we 
shall ever arrive at this precision in their diagnosis. I will add, 
that many of those distinctions which have been so eagerly 
insisted on, when inspecting the dead body, do not appear to me 
to deserve much notice, since the diseases of which we have 
treated have all pretty nearly the same character, and palsy of the 
hind limbs having been the constant symptom of all the morbid 
alterations in the spinal chord, which I have hitherto noticed. 
