CASES OF APOPLEXY, HEMIPLEGIA, AND PARAPLEGIA. 415 
travelled several seasons in this neighbourhood, and was then 
sold. 
In the same year, Mr. Thomas Keddy had a horse that fell 
down in a fit of hemiplegia. I was called to attend him. I bled 
him immediately, and we got him up. He was paralyzed on one 
side, and could only walk a few paces at a time, so that it was 
with great difficulty we got him home, a distance of about a 
quarter of a mile. I gave him antispasmodic medicine, which 
relieved the convulsive and tremulous motions; and he stood up, 
ate a little mash, and appeared somewhat better; yet I was con¬ 
vinced the case was hopeless. 
On the next morning he was down, and could not be raised : 
I told Mr. Keddy that his horse would die, and that it was use¬ 
less to put him to any more expense about him. The owner 
was not satisfied with this plain dealing, and got another per¬ 
son to examine him, who told him he could perform a cure, and 
commenced with bleeding, blistering, and medicine ; but he found 
the horse dead on his second visit. 
In the year 1833, Mr. Thomas Peirson, solicitor, of Pickering, 
sent for me to bleed his horse, and to give him a dose of physic. 
He told me the horse went very dull and sluggish on the road. 
The animal had been out on the morning that I attended him, 
and, on coming into the stable, had staggered forward, and 
fallen. I found on examination that it was an attack of paralysis, 
the neck being bent or curved very much. I bled him, and gave 
a dose of physic, but I had no hope of a cure, and threw out a 
hint to that effect. I then set off to attend some other patients, 
and Mr. Peirson, being uneasy about his horse, sent for another 
person in my absence. When I returned, I found the horse 
lying on the ground, and a sack of corn placed across his 
neck. I inquired the reason of this strange manoeuvre, and was 
told that it was done for the purpose of setting the neck straight, 
as the farrier supposed that he had bent it by the fall. Other 
means had also been resorted to, and great confidence expressed 
that the horse would soon be better, and fit to turn out to grass, 
as the complaint was only a severe attack of rheumatism. Num¬ 
berless expedients were now resorted to, such as raising him up 
with slings occasionally, and keeping him in that position for 
awhile, and then letting him down again ; applying sheep skins 
and counter-irritants, and, all the while, giving full assurance that 
the horse was getting better, and would soon go out to grass— 
nay, the day was actually fixed for turning him out : but, to 
their utter astonishment, the horse died before the ap|)ointed day 
had arrived. 
These are a few out of nvdJjy similar cases that I could furnish 
