590 ON THE DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CHORD 
employed in CoHege-st. a distance of nearly a mile from Mr. 
Downie’s workshop. Arranged in a row with other horses em¬ 
ployed in the same work, while the carters were absent, he left 
the cart , and, unattended by any driver, went down the High 
Street, along Gallowgate Street, and up a narrow lane,w r here he 
stopped at the farrier’s door. As neither Mr. Leggat nor any 
one appeared with the horse, it was surmised that lie had been 
seized with his old complaint. Being unyoked from the cart , 
he lay down, and shewed, by every means of which he was 
capable, that he was in distress. He w as again treated the same 
as usual, and sent home to Mr. Leggat, who had, by that time, 
persons in all directions in search of him.”—Page 450. 
In conclusion, w e can recommend this publication as a kind of 
omnium gatherum; as embodying many authentic anecdotes, 
and some strangely marvellous ones of the horse; and as a 
pleasant companion enough in an idle hour. 
33xtract0 from journal#, ^Foreign anfc Commit. 
On the Diseases of the Spinal Chord and its Membranes 
in the Horse. 
By M . Boulky, Jun, V.S. at Paris. 
[Continued from page 525.] 
Long time have veterinarians observed palsy of the limbs of 
horses, but, up to the present day, they have all ascribed it to 
traumatic lesions of the spinal chord: no one has suspected that 
this disease (or rather this symptom of disease) might be the 
product of some spontaneous alterations either in the spinal 
marrow' or its membranes; although daily experience proves 
that, in the majority of cases, this morbid phenomenon is as- 
cribable to the latter of these causes. 
Morbid alterations of the spinal marrow may be either acci¬ 
dental or spontaneous. 
The first, in horses, are commonly the result of fractures or 
luxations of the vertebral chain. These accidents, alw ays fatal, 
commonly happen to the cervical and dorso-lumbar regions, and 
are productive of compression of the spinal marrow, or lacera¬ 
tion of its membranes or even of its substance. They are 
frequently accompanied by violent commotions and effusions of 
blood between the spinal membranes, and always terminate 
in palsy, more or less complete, which becomes manifest in 
an endless variety of w ays, according to the part of the marrow 
which is injured. 
