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LOCAL PALSY IN THREE HORSES. 
again; and it was with a great deal of difficulty, and the assistance 
of several persons, that he was brought back to the stable. 
I was sent for, and before I began to examine the horse some 
of the spectators who had helped to bring him home told me that 
he had broken his right thigh, because in walking he dragged 
that limb after him. I, however, paid very little attention to 
this, and he was lying so that it was impossible for me to examine 
this limb. The following is the state in which I found him an 
hour after he was brought home :— 
General sweating; the flanks heaving; the pulse small and 
frequent, the artery feeling under the finger like a cord; the eyes 
bright and red; the mucous membrane of the nose very much 
injected ; the mouth hot and dry. I tried in vain to raise the 
animal; he struggled with his fore extremities and his near hind 
one whenever we tried to move him. I had him turned, and 
examined the limb which, according to the bystanders, was 
fractured. My researches were fruitless: there existed no fracture, 
but a complete paralysis had taken place, accompanied by the 
following symptoms ;—the temperature of the whole extremity 
from the croup to the hoof was considerably diminished, the 
muscles were soft, the sensibility very dull, and the animal could 
not move that leg. Twenty minutes after this examination he 
passed without pain some bloody urine, and made several efforts 
to dung. 
I began by giving him emollient drinks and clysters. As it 
was not long since the animal had eaten, I thought it better to 
wait some hours before I took eight pounds of blood from the 
neck; immediately afterwards I inserted two setons, saturated 
with the essential oil of turpentine, in the affected thigh. In the 
evening white water was given to him : he drank it with avidity, 
and tried to eat. 
The next day the pulse was still hard; I took the same quan¬ 
tity of blood as before : the setons had already slightly dimi¬ 
nished the tumefaction. The same treatment was continued. 
I ordered stimulating embrocations to be well rubbed twice 
a-day on the limb and along the spine. 
Third day .—The horse in the same state; but the pulse 
scarcely so strong. Four pounds of blood were taken, and four 
drachms of nux vomica administered. The other treatment was 
continued as before. 
From the fourth to the twenty-first day .—I gave every morn¬ 
ing fasting from four to six drachms of nux vomica; the frictions 
were uniformly continued twice every day, and three or four clys¬ 
ters were administered. The discharge from the setons was very 
