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markably weakened, and constipation was excessive. Nothing 
was given him at first but barley-water. On the next day, 
clysters were administered with considerable precaution, which 
brought away pieces of faecal matter of an oval shape, hard, red- 
brown, and foetid. Three days passed without the dog having once 
voluntarily changed his position. He lay in one corner of his 
kennel, his head resting on the ground. He was moved several 
times by pulling at his chain, in order to be satisfied that his 
hind extremities were paralyzed. His countenance remained 
gloomy and ferocious. On the 21st, nearly five days after he 
was brought to us, he began to raise his head, and eat some 
soup with avidity, and also some pieces of meat that were thrown 
to him. The next day he wagged his tail when the pupil who 
had the care of him caressed him; he placed himself in a more 
natural position; and from this moment to the 25th his strength 
and spirits returned. He was then sent back to his master, who 
attentively watched him, but did not afterwards perceive any 
sign of the disease. 
9. Fractures are more frequent in dogs than in any other species 
of domestic animals; and we have greater chance of a favourable 
result than in larger quadrupeds; and unsuccessful cases are far 
less numerous. 
We shall not exaggerate by saying, that the number of 
fractures which we have reduced in dogs and cats is not less 
than fifty. All the animals were not left at the infirmary: most 
of them were brought to the school for the proper bandages to be 
applied, and then taken home by their owners, and not always 
sent again. 
The number of animals with fractures, under one year old, com¬ 
pared with those of a more advanced age, were at least three to 
one. In the youngest, these fractures were the consequence of 
falls from some little elevation, such as a chair or a table. It is 
not unusual to find in these subjects, simple breaking off of the 
articular epiphysis. 
These fractures are almost always situated on the second or 
third division of the extremities; that is to say, in the femur or 
the tibia ; the humerus, or the arm beneath: fractures of the car¬ 
pus, and the tarsus beneath, are rare. One fracture of the pelvic 
