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LOCAL PALSY IN THREE HORSES. 
steadier. I left off the nux vomica, and only made use of the 
frictions. 
Twenty-eighth and ninth days. —The horse continued the same. 
Thirtieth day. —1 wished to make the animal walk in the 
stable, to be enabled to form a better judgment of the extent of 
his lameness. Each step he took seemed to give him great pain, 
and the affected limb gave w r ay so much that the patella almost 
touched the ground: I was obliged to cease this slight exercise, 
as walking was yet too painful. 
Thirty-first, second, and third days. —The flexion of the limb 
was the same, but the animal suffered less in walking, and he 
went about twenty or thirty yards in the court. 
Thirty-fourth, fifth, and sixth days. —Nothing new appeared. 
I increased the walking, continuing it for nearly half an hour. 
The horse appeared fatigued by his exercise, and laid down almost 
directly after he was brought into the stable. 
Thirty-seventh, eighth, ninth, and fortieth days. —Although 
the limb appeared as if it were shortened, and its flexibility con¬ 
tinued the same, and the support w r as far from steady, yet the 
animal walked with less pain. 
Forty-first day. —Not finding the lameness satisfactorily better, 
I wished to try the effect of acupuncturation on the muscles of the 
croup and the thigh ; but I found it impossible to introduce a 
single needle, the skin was so hard and unyielding. I attributed 
this to the frequent frictions which had been applied to these 
parts. I therefore thought it necessary to make use of emollient 
fomentations in order to restore the skin to its usual softness; 
and after pursuing this treatment for seven or eight days, I was 
enabled to introduce into the muscles to which I have before al¬ 
luded twenty needles, to the depth of eighteen or twenty lines, 
and which I did not withdraw for four-and-twenty hours. During 
this operation the animal did not testify the slightest sensibility. 
Fiftieth day. —Thirty needles were inserted, from twelve to 
twenty lines in depth, here and there, over the whole of the su¬ 
perior region of the limb, that is to say, from the croup to the 
middle part of the leg, both on the external and internal surface. 
During this operation the horse testified much pain, and princi¬ 
pally when I introduced the needles into the internal surface : 
they were left there thirty hours. 
Fifty-first and second days. —Walking only : the lameness was 
still very great; nevertheless the animal could go a mile and a 
half, at a moderate pace, without fatiguing himself. 
Fifty-third day. —I inserted forty needles in the same places as 
on the fiftieth day; and left them there for six-and-thirty hours. 
Fifty fifth day. —The bearing on the foot was firmer. He now 
