A CASE OF SPINAL MENINGITIS. 
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of the pulse ; still, under all these circumstances, the restoration 
of the ruminating process by stimulants was attended in all with 
perfect success. I must not omit to state, that I had the animals 
drenched several times in the day with gruel. 
Now that stimulants, or call them what you please, act in a 
direct manner upon the paunch, 8cc., is clearly seen in cases 
where rumination has been suspended for several days, and been 
restored by the simple introduction of earth fresh dug out of the 
ground ; likewise, by the administration (when cattle are blown) 
of a solution of carbonate of ammonia in water, or, what is 
still better, the liq. ammon., or the more popular, though equally 
successful one, of common tar. And that a stimulant is occa¬ 
sionally required when they are in a state of nature is exempli¬ 
fied from the fact, of their frequent eating of fresh turned-up 
earth, or mole heaps. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE MEMBRANES OF THE 
SPINAL CHORD. 
Bj/ Mr, J. Chapman, of Nottingham, 
A MESSAGE was seiit October9th, 1833, requesting Mr. Youatt 
to attend on a horse belonging to Mr. H-. He had been 
noticed two days before to lag a little when at work, and was 
somewhat off his food. Mashes were given to him, and a day's rest, 
and he seemed to be better; still there was so much of the ap¬ 
pearance of illness about him, that they would not put him to 
work without consulting us. Mr. Y. being confined to his room 
by severe indisposition, I attended. The pulse was 68, but not 
hard. The Schneiderian membrane was pale, but with patches 
of inflammation within the inner angle of the nostril; the ex¬ 
tremities were warm. He shrunk, and appeared to suffer con¬ 
siderable pain when his sides were pressed on, and particularly 
the near one ; and as I watched him attentively, I could perceive 
slight spams of the muscles of the shoulder and the chest. I 
imagined it to be a case of pleurisy, and yet the symptoms were 
not quite satisfactory. I bled the horse until the pulse begun to 
faulter, which was when about ten pounds had been abstracted; 
I then gave him a ball composed of digitalis, nitre, and emetic 
tartar, and ordered a small mash. 
8 p.M. —The pulse has about the same rapidity, but it is 
softer and fuller. The horse feeds a little. Ball as before; 
mash diet. 
\0th., 8 A.M, —Evident improvement. The pulse has sunk to 
