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A CASE OF WORMS IN THE ARTERIES. 
we have here, undoubtedly, a proof of the formation of cataract 
without inflammation, or that ophthalmia may sometimes aflect 
the foetus in utero. , ,1 i 
Mv third case is that of a half-bred gelding, which had ophthal¬ 
mia when from two to three years old, and a cataract was the 
result. I had opportunity of examining his eyes several times 
within the next two or three years. The cataract was evidently 
diminishing, and when, some months afterwards I looked for it 
it was gone. 1 should perhaps farther state, that, except at 
the beoinning of the disease, nothing was done in the way of 
treatment; and that not one of three or four owners he had in 
the time, among whom was a surgeon, knew of the cataract. 
A CASE OF WORMS IN THE ARTERIES. 
By the same. 
Your last number contained a paper on two diseases which are 
met with in India, namely, worm in the eye and kummeree, 
neither of which have been, I believe, recognized with us; but 1 
have occasionally met with disease (from the accounts I have 
read) somewhat similar to the latter, and occasioned, m some in¬ 
stances, as I thought, by a cause as extraordinary as the former, 
namely, the existence of worms in the arteries. I subjoin a 
Ca *A yearling colt, that had been weaned at Michaelmas, and 
well fed through the winter, was very low in condition in the 
spring, and his old coat remained fast on when other colts were 
parting with theirs. He had also, for some time, been observed 
to pass his urine involuntarily, and particularly when made to 
trot. His penis was hanging down, and, to appearance, para¬ 
lyzed He was evidently weak behind, but there did not appear 
to be’ absolute paralysis'of the posterior extremities. He was 
well fed ; was physicked, and had setons and blisters on his 
loins, and tonic medicines were administered, but without any 
improvement: at length he became unable to raise himself when 
down and had indications of affection of the brain, as tearing up 
the grass and earth within his reach, without attempting to 
masticate or swallow any. He was then destroyed, and imme¬ 
diately examined. , r 
I found a slightly unnatural degree of vascularity or fulness of 
the vessels about the pineal gland, and, as I thought,a little more 
fluid than natural within the membranes of the spinal marrow, 
and also between the theca vertebralis and the bony walls of the 
spine. There was also a little effusion within the cellular mem- 
