PALSY IN THE HORSE. 
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the kidney is frequently accompanied by a loss of motion in the 
hinder extremities, either closely resembling palsy, or for a while 
partaking of the true character of palsy. There is the same 
reluctance or inability to move, and the same knuckling and 
progressing on the fetlocks. Either the lumbar muscles partake 
of the inflammation of the kidneys, and the extreme pain pc- 
casioned by every motion of the limb, makes the horse as 
unwilling to move as if he were actually palsied; or the nerves 
escaping in the immediate neighbourhood and destined to give 
motion to the hind extremities, actually take on inflamm.ation. 
This shews the necessity of decisive measures in affections of the 
kidney—the lancet, the physic ball, and the mustard poultice 
should be called into active requisition. 
A few months ago, I attended a horse with what I supposed 
to be, and am confident was, a chest affection—it was pleurisy. 
All at once the character of the disease was changed, and I 
had evident nephritis—there was the same almost inability to 
move, the same knuckling at the fetlocks, the actual going upon 
the fetlocks, the cracking of the fetlock and pastern joints at 
every motion. Whether my measures were not sufficiently 
active, or the inflammation bid defiance to controul, I lost my 
patient. 
Old, and abused carriage horses, with extensive anchylosis of 
the spine, frequently have a constrained and confined action, an 
inability to flex the spine or to move except bodily and like a 
deal board as it were; and there is evident loss of motion and 
power. Look at this specimen of anchylosis of almost the whole 
of the spine, and you will see what I mean. 
There is a disease of another climate—Kumree—which is 
described as a weakness, or partial paralysis of the loins, and 
which is said by some to be connected with the presence of a 
minute worm in the anterior chamber of the eye. We shall 
inquire into this when the disease of the ocular system, comes 
under notice. 
In our next lecture we shall have to take a very different view 
of palsy, as it appears in other patients. 
VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS DURING 
THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1834-35. 
Dur iNG the past year there have been admitted into the 
liospital 727 patients, viz. 492 horses, 225 dogs, 4 asses, 1 mule, 
3 cows, and 2 goats. 
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