170 ON THE DISEASES OF TIIK SPINAL CHORD. 
teeth, and seemed to wish to rub his poll upon the ground : 
partial sweats soon followed. Camphorated drinks were given 
during the night. Frequent and tumultuous beatings of the heart 
rapidly succeeded, with abundant perspiration, great agitation, 
and death at seven o’clock in the morning. 
Examination twenty-six /tours after death .—The thoracic and 
abdominal viscera were in their natural state ; the vertebral co¬ 
lumn presented, through the whole extent of the dorsal region, 
a bluish tint, and diffused a gangrenous odour, which was prin¬ 
cipally remarked on its inferior face, and over the ligaments and 
periosteum of the bones which formed this column. The neigh¬ 
bouring muscles were in the same state. This alteration ap¬ 
peared again, but indistinctly, towards the fourth lumbar verte¬ 
bra, and propagated itself even to the sacrum. The spongy bo¬ 
dies of the vertebrae were black, and exhaled a very foetid odour. 
The cellular adipose tissue, by means of which the dura mater 
adhered to the w alls of the bony canal, was infiltrated with a red¬ 
dish serous fluid. The substance of the spinal marrow 7 presented, 
towards the thoracic enlargement, a complete softening, this 
alteration extended before, to the base of the third cervical ver¬ 
tebra, and behind, as far as the tenth dorsal. Beyond this point 
the spinal marrow preserved pretty nearly its natural consistence, 
until we arrived at the third lumbar vertebra, where the soften- 
ing appeared again, but in a manner less complete : for it includ¬ 
ed only the superior fibres of that portion of the spinal marrow*. 
The grey substance presented here a rosy tint, which it had not 
offered elsewhere. There w 7 as no remarkable lesion of the brain, 
except that the corpora striata were somewhat injected, and the 
substance of the brain itself slightly pointed. 
CASE XI. 
In the course of the month of February, Mr. Aubert wished 
M.Tassie to attend to a grey, entire horse, aged six years, which, 
standing harnessed to a cart in the street, had fallen, and could 
not get up again. That veterinarian immediately recognized the 
symptoms of complete palsy of the hind limbs, and treated the 
case accordingly. 
On the following day he perceived that the action of the fore 
limbs was becoming very limited, that palsy was attacking them. 
The disease now made rapid progress, and on the night following 
the horse expired. 
Examination , conducted by M. Tassie and myse/j , thirty hours 
after death .—We remarked some traces of inflammation on the 
abdominal viscera: the lungs and the heart were sound. The 
adipose tissue, which united the dura mater to the vertebral ca- 
