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movements. The sense of touch was so very acute that the 
slia'htest contact with anything greatly exasperated the 
patient. The power of locomotion, without being abolished, 
was greatly diminished. 
The proprietor said, that up to that time nothing unusual 
had occurred. As the malady had proved somewhat obsti¬ 
nate in the treatment, it was deemed expedient to make some 
slight modification. Tincture of strychnine was applied to 
the lumbar region, the cinchonine was replaced by the sul¬ 
phate of quinine, eight grammes of which were administered 
in a decoction of willow bark, immediately after the attack 
had passed off. The patient was ordered to be kept warm, 
if cold prevailed ; if, on the contrary, she were hot, aromatic 
drinks were to be given, and if the heat increased, to take off 
the clothing, so as not to provoke perspiration, which would 
only tend to debilitate the system, and thereby extinguish 
the remnant of vitality which was becoming very precarious. 
The drinks were to be acidulated if the perspiration was too 
abundant. 
On the 23rd the animal was inclined to feed, and besran to 
ruminate; the paraplegia disappeared, the posterior extremi¬ 
ties were still a little stiff, all the other morbid symptoms 
were changed, but there was extreme debility left, indeed so 
much that she could hardly stand. 
From the 24th to the 27th the state of the patient was 
much improved; the tonic treatment was continued, and also 
the prophylactic means. 
On the 2nd of February the cure was nearly complete. 
On the 3th all treatment was discontinued, and the animal 
seemed now in perfect health. 
In comparing the symptoms of these three accessions, a 
great similarity is remarked, and the author is, therefore, of 
opinion, that he has had to deal with a case of intermittent 
fever. 
Observations .—These affections have been but little studied 
in domestic animals. Volpi denies their existence; Lafosse 
doubts them; Iiurtzel d J Arboval thinks that domestic animals 
might be affected with them, but that the cause depends on 
some lesion; Girard, junior, admits of their existence. Accord¬ 
ing to him they are but a group of symptoms characteristic 
of local inflammation, and he similates it to bilious and car- 
bonous fever, and confounds it with gastro-interitis. Lautour, 
Clichy, Rodet, and M. Reboul have published some facts to 
prove the existence of these morbid derangements, but in the 
horse only. Solleysel, Garsault, and Bourgelat state, in their 
writings, that these maladies may prevail in all domestic 
