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CASES OF PALSY IN THE HORSE. 
At four o’clock I again visited her, and I found her consi¬ 
derably worse. She had made many useless efforts to get up— 
her pulse, less developed, was more accelerated; and she had 
lost all power over her hind limbs. She was bled again from the 
two saphenas, and the drinks were continued. 
At nine o’clock she seemed to be in a desperate state,—-the 
pulse was small, scarcely perceptible, and about eighty beats in a 
minute; her hind limbs, almost cold, had lost both sensibility and 
power of motion; the pupils were dilated; the animal could 
neither see nor hear, and, in fact, every thing indicated approach¬ 
ing dissolution. Two large blisters were applied to the thighs; 
but at ten o’clock she died. 
Examination eleven hours after death .—About a pint and a 
half of red-coloured fluid was found in the abdomen, and traces 
of inflammation were observed on the mesentery and small 
intestines. The lungs, and particularly the right one, were 
gorged with blood. Ihe left cavities of the heart and the oiigin 
of the posterior aorta contained some fibrous masses. The super¬ 
ficial veins of the brain were slightly injected. The brain itself 
was in its natural state. The spinal marrow, from the neck to the 
commencement of the sacrum, presented no sensible lesion. The 
dura mater and arachnoid membrane were perfect: but this was 
not the case with the lumbar nerves, which instead of being of a 
pearly white colour , were yellow, softened, slightly thickened, and 
torn with the greatest facility; the superior and inferior roots 
were in the same state . 
; CASE II. 
On the 2d of September, 1833, an aged sorrel mare was, 
during her work, and without any apparent cause, seized with 
violent lameness of the right hind leg. She was immediately 
unharnessed, and with much difficulty led to my infirmary about 
ten o’clock in the morning, and during my absence eight pounds 
of blood were abstracted. 
At eleven o’clock I saw her for the first time. She was beat¬ 
ing herself about, lying down and getting up incessantly, and 
when she was up she rested with pain on the lame leg, and 
almost constantly kept it flexed and drawn up. She seemed to 
suffer dreadfully, nevertheless she ate with eagerness ; her body 
was covered with perspiration, and her pulse was hard and wiry. 
These symptoms left me no room for doubt respecting the nature 
of the malady, and I hastened to repeat the bleeding, and gave 
her an infusion of linseed meal, to which I had added four 
ounces of laudanum. These means producing no remission of 
the symptoms, I opened the two saphenas for about ten minutes, 
and which loss of blood produced a very sensible change. She 
