IN VERTIGO. 
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CASE XII. 
25th Feb, 1828.—A horse, twenty years old, that had rendered 
good service in his time, and that was preserved more from the 
recollection of what he had done, than what he could now do, 
was attacked with vertigo. The proprietor, who, in his quality 
of officer of cavalry, thought that he had some pretensions to 
veterinary science, having questioned me with regard to the ma¬ 
lady, and the treatment which I intended to adopt, deemed it 
very extraordinary that I did not have immediate recourse to* 
bleeding, which, in his opinion, such a case imperatively de¬ 
manded, and for which he appealed to the authority of an esti¬ 
mable confrere, M. G.; but, as I was obstinate, although they 
did not conceal their belief that I was somewhat beside myself, 
they left me to do as I pleased. 
I pursued, with some slight modifications, the plan of Gilbert, 
and with complete success. On the first day I administered an 
ounce of emetic tartar, with the same quantity of aloes and some 
opium. The attack had been exceedingly violent: the medicine 
produced loud rumbling of the bowels, which continued during 
the 25th, 26th, and 27th, and, although somewhat weaker, 
several days afterwards. I also applied four setons to the neck, 
and enormous sinapisms on the thighs and chest. On the se¬ 
cond day he had roused himself a little; and this increased on 
the following day. On the fifth day the animal exhibited more 
drowsiness, and bore upon the reins by which he was secured in 
his stall. He pawed frequently, and agitated his tail as if he 
was teased by flies. By the advice of M. Dupuy I gave him a 
half-pound of bark, mixed with six or seven pounds of honey, in 
the space of three days. I intended by this to avoid the stimu¬ 
lating drinks recommended by M. Gilbert. Good panado was 
afterwards given, to the amount of three 
a pound of honey. 
March 10th .—He was led for the first time into the yard, and 
staggered like a drunken man. Fifteen days after that he re¬ 
turned to his former food and work. 
Twenty months afterwards he was found one morning dead in 
his stall, without any appearance of illness on the previous even¬ 
ing. 
pounds every day, with 
CASE XIII. 
The case which I am now about to relate occurred during the 
convalescence of the last mentioned horse. About the middle of 
March, 1828, I was desired to see a horse, belonging to the 
gendarmerie of Paris, that was very ill. T immediately recog- 
