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CASE III. 
March 15 th, 1825.—An entire grey horse, six years old, be¬ 
longing to the postmaster at Sevres, was harnessed with four 
other horses to the diligence which was going to Paris. Having 
arrived at the end of his journey, the driver perceived that the 
horse could scarcely stand on his hind legs ; he hastened to 
detach him from the harness, and in a moment he fell. Not 
being able to get him up, he was placed on a sledge and carried 
to a neighbouring house. I was called to see him two hours 
after the appearance of the first symptoms. I recognized all 
those of paraplegia, and I advised an antiphlogistic treatment. 
The proprietor, believing that the state of the horse depended on 
indigestion, would not at first adopt my opinion; but he was so 
far influenced by my entreaties, that in the course of the day 
three successive bleedings, of six pounds each, were practised. 
They produced the happiest effect; and at night we began to 
observe some slight movement in the hind limbs. On the mor¬ 
row, the animal raised himself several times, and remained 
standing a few seconds. The improvement rapidly proceeded, 
and, on the fifteenth day, the patient was put to light work; 
and, at the end of two months, he took his ordinary post in the 
diligence. 
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CASE IV. 
An entire draught horse, ten years old, was seized with 
palsy on the 20th of April, 1825, and confided to the care of 
M. Auror, V.S., at Bourg Narine. Being consulted on the case, 
1 strongly urged that veterinarian to adopt the antiphlogistic 
method; and twenty-four pounds of blood were abstracted in 
the course of one day. These bleedings produced a change so 
favourable, and a re-establishment of health so rapid, that on 
the sixteenth day the animal returned to his usual work and 
regimen. 
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CASE V. 
May 10 th, 1826.—Being called to attend a horse, I found 
him stretched on the pavement, beating himself about, and 
making vain attempts to rise. I learned from the diivei that he 
had been harnessed to a timber carriage, that all at once his hind 
limbs seemed to fail, and, after staggering a hundred paces, he 
suddenly fell. The general state of the patient leaving no doubt 
as to the nature and seat of the disease, I immediately bled him 
to the extent of ten pounds, and pointed out the course of treat¬ 
ment to be pursued. 1 saw this animal no more; for, being, 
