ON THE DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CORD 
observation relative to the subject before us. It consists of a 
short note of many instances of palsy observed in oxen, without 
any sensible alteration of the spinal cord. It is attributed to 
M. Buisson, veterinary surgeon at Saint Antoine. 
Gohier, in the first volume of his journal, has related two facts 
of palsy of the hind limbs in the horse. In one it followed a 
fracture of the scapula, in the other it was occasioned by a callus 
situated on the ribs at the sternum. In the first there was a con¬ 
siderable deposit between the spinal marrow and its envelopes at 
the lumbar region ; in the other there was no remarkable altera¬ 
tion. 
The Director of the school at Alfort has described two mala¬ 
dies of the sheep. The first violent and little known, and which 
attacked lambs only. At its commencement it resembled the 
“ blood,” but it afterwards connected itself with “ turnsick,” 
and speedily terminated in universal palsy. The functions of 
digestion were not disturbed : the animal preserved his appetite 
to the last moment. On dissection, there appeared inflamma¬ 
tion of the membranes of the brain, and some hydatids scattered 
on these membranes. In many, the spinal canal contained 
much serous effusion, and the spinal marrow was softer than in 
a healthy state. 
The second disease peculiar to the sheep is recognized by the 
name of trembling, or nervous affection. It commences with in¬ 
flammation not very intense, which is quickly followed by gene¬ 
ral loss of power. A considerable itching or eruption generally 
announces the attack ; to this succeeds a remarkable weakness 
in the loins, and that is soon followed by complete palsy. Some 
of them linger on three or four months, or longer, before they 
die. 
M. Girard has not discovered any organic lesion in those who 
died at an advanced period of the disease : in those who were 
destroyed in an early state of the affection, some traces of inflam¬ 
mation were observed. 
Barthelemy, sen., has reported, in Bie transactions of the 
school at Alfort, many observations on dogs affected with palsy, 
attributed to softening of the spinal cord, and successfully treated 
with the nux vomica. 
In the first number of the “Recueil de M6decine Veterinaire” 
I have related a case of palsy of the abdominal region in a horse, 
produced by softening of the inferior part of the dorso-lumbar 
portion of the spinal marrow, and characterised by loss of motion, 
with preservation of feeling. 
A little time afterwards, M. Coulbeaux published an ana- 
