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in the present state of the question is not in a position 
to do. 
The President said that these two ideas should be stated 
in the conclusions proposed, one which deals with the inter¬ 
vention of the administration on the question of inoculation, 
the other which advanced an opinion more or less explicit on 
the prophylactic value of this measure. And he agrees with 
M. Leblanc as to the necessity of separating the two parts of 
the conclusions, and to submit them separately to the con¬ 
sideration of the Society. 
The first was then submitted to the Society and adopted; 
the second was rejected. 
Journal des Veterinaires da Midi, March, 1862. 
INTERMITTENT EEVER WITH PARAPLEGIA IN A COW. 
By M. Loucou, Veterinake a Salvaguac. 
The subject of this case was a cow, ten years old, very 
much out of condition. The symptoms were uneasiness, 
dejection, weakness, loss of appetite, rumination suspended, 
the eyes languid. The animal seemed as if suffocation were 
imminent, and moaned as if suffering great pain. The pulse 
was small, hard, and irregular; the mucous membrane pale; 
the ears and legs cold. General rigors were also present, 
with grinding of the teeth, and much depression. She 
seemed instinctively to shrink, so as to present less surface 
to the surrounding air, thereby avoiding its action; the 
respiration was laborious, embarrassed, and precipitated, 
as if by exerting the whole force of the respiratory organs 
the animal was endeavouring to obtain the greatest amount of 
caloric, so as to enable it to contend against the intense cold 
by which it was affected. By pricking it with a pin to make 
it get up, it did not move, but on repeating this several 
times, the anterior limbs were strongly agitated, while the 
posterior ones remained immovable. It was thus clear that 
the hinder parts were paralysed; but to ascertain whether 
there was only a diminution or total loss of sensation, the 
author pricked the parts repeatedly with a pin, without 
causing the slightest muscular contraction, he therefore was 
convinced that there was total loss of motion as well as sen¬ 
sation. The muscles were in such a state of tension that it 
would have been easier to break the articulations than to flex 
them. 
