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CASES OF LOCAL PALSY OBSERVED IN THREE 
HORSES. 
By M. Clichy, V. S., Joinville. 
CASE I. 
The horse which forms the subject of this narrative was 
under treatment for a prick which the farrier had given him on 
the off hind foot. This accident, though slight, prevented the 
animal from working for fifteen days ; and while he was confined 
in the stable he was fed as the other horses. 
The 13 th of November, 1826, the lameness being totally gone, 
his owner wished to work him; in leading him to the fields, and 
after about twenty minutes walk, he perceived that the animal 
was very lame on the near hind extremity. A few minutes after¬ 
wards he was astonished to see the lameness so much increased 
that the animal threatened every moment to fall on his near 
side. Although but three miles from me, it took more than 
three hours ere he could, with great pain, reach my infirmary. 
This horse was in tolerably good condition, of the true Per- 
cheronne breed, and about 15^ hands high : he was about five 
years old, and belonged to M. Pele, an innkeeper at Allaines 
(Eure-et-Loir). The following were the symptoms observed an 
hour after his arrival. 
Loss of appetite, frequent neighing, slight cholicy pains : the 
animal lay down and then rose suddenly : in this latter position 
he bent the hind near extremity so much that the croup was 
brought almost on the ground, from the right side to the left; 
the flanks were very much agitated, and there were partial sweats 
under the belly and on the shoulders. The pulse was hard and 
accelerated, and the palpitations of the heart strong; the mu¬ 
cous membranes appeared red; the eyes haggard; the nostrils 
dilated, and the mouth hot and dry ; the temperature of the 
body was higher than its natural standard, except in the para¬ 
lysed extremity, the vital properties of which seemed diminished 
through its whole extent. 
I administered several clysters, and drenched him with several 
bottles of mucilaginous decoction. An hour afterwards the ani¬ 
mal was quieter, and not in so much pain ; the hinder parts were 
so weak and tottering that he could scarcely stand without sup¬ 
port. If he fell, the continual efforts which he made to raise 
himself were ineffectual. Towards evening he passed a thick 
and bloody urine; the pellets of dung were hard and shining. 
1 passed two setons covered with blister ointment over the loins, 
