LOCAL PALSY IN THREE HORSES. 519 
laborious, the pulse quick and wiry, the mouth hot, and the eyes 
red ; he often attempted to rise; the thoracic and abdominal 
members were uselessly put in play, the region of the loins was 
inflexible, and there was scarcely any heat or sensibility in this 
part: the animal did not testify any pain when he was deeply 
pricked on the loins. After having rubbed him gently dry, I 
took from the saphena veins between four and five pounds of 
blood, I put a poultice of oatmeal made with vinegar on the 
loins, after having previously ordered them to be well rubbed; 
I afterwards gave some bottles of mucilaginous water, and 
several emollient clysters. An hour afterwards the patient passed 
several hard pellets of dung with the clysters, and made useless 
efforts to stale. On introducing my hand into the rectum, I felt 
the fulness of the bladder : I compressed it on every side, and 
a great quantity of a brick-coloured urine was voided. In the 
evening the pulse w r as still full; 1 amputated one joint of the tail, 
and left it bleeding for an hour, and gave drinks, clysters, and a 
poultice of oatmeal. 
On the morning of the second day the horse was much quieter; 
the eyes were not so red, nor the pulse so wiry. He made seve¬ 
ral ineffectual efforts to rise. I again forced the urine to flow, 
but it was not so red as yesterday. I had him turned, and bled 
from the tail for half an hour. I administered four drachms of 
nux vomica. Poultices of oatmeal on the loins, and mucilagin¬ 
ous drinks and clysters. He had hitherto shewn no inclination 
for food, and it was not until evening that he took a little white 
water, and tried to eat. 
This treatment w r as continued until the fifth day without the 
paralysis appearing to be relieved; as for the rest, the appetite 
was good, the pulse and respiration in their natural state, and 
the urine and dung were voided naturally. Besides continuing 
the former treatment, I determined sooner than usual to have re¬ 
course to acupuncturation ; and accordingly I introduced twelve 
needles eighteen lines deep into the thickest part of the ilio-spinal 
{tungissimus dorsi) muscle, and I suffered them to remain for 
eight hours. I continued the same operation and the other 
treatment for eight days. 
On the tenth day after the appearance of the disease, I was 
astonished to see the animal get up about half an hour after he 
had been turned on his left side: he was very weak, but he 
moved his hind extremities with great difficulty. He did not 
lie down again until the next morning; he then slept profound¬ 
ly, and some hours after rose again. 
On the morning of the twelfth day he was lying down ; but 
as soon as I approached he got up. I found his hind extremi- 
