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CASES BY THOMAS T. HUDSON 1 . 
CASES BY THOMAS T. HUDSON, V.S., Blyth, Notts. 
To the Editor of ‘ The Veterinarian .’ 
Dear Sir, —Having had several fatal cases of paralysis, 
of a peculiar nature, during this and former seasons, all of 
which have been equally fatal, I beg to hand you the sym¬ 
ptoms of two which have come under my treatment in the 
present season. If you think them worthy of a place in 
your valuable and indispensable Journal, you would much 
oblige me by their insertion in the next Number. 
Since several horses, both old and young in the neighbour¬ 
hood, which have come under my observation, have fallen 
victims to the affliction, some within the short space of eight 
hours from their commencement, I have perused your valuable 
“ Hippopathology,” and find the symptoms correspond to no 
disease so much as that of Idiopathic Taro.plegia; but what 
makes the cases more remarkable is, the difficulty in dis¬ 
covering the cause; they always occurring, in my practice, 
during very hot weather. Perhaps some practitioners who 
may have been more successful in such cases than I have 
hitherto been, and have had better opportunities of investi¬ 
gating the disease than myself, will throw a little light on 
the true nature of the affection in the ensuing Number of 
“ The Veterinarian.” I beg leave also to state that Mam- 
mitis has been very prevalent in my neighbourhood during the 
summer months, never having had so many cases under my 
treatment in former years. The majority of cases were 
affected in one quarter, and owed their origin to the retention 
of the milk, causing an acid secretion to be given off from 
the mucous membrane of the lactiferous ducts, and breaking 
up the constituents of the milk. 
The treatment I adopted was that recommended by Pro¬ 
fessor Simonds, in his Lectures last Session. I find the 
injection of the antacid solution into the reservoir a very 
useful adjunct, and I highly recommend its use in such cases, 
seeing that all my patients have recovered in a very short 
time, beyond my most sanguine expectations. Several cases 
which occurred in Drapes that had been grazing in meadow 
lands, and not frequently noticed, ran on to the suppu¬ 
rative form, and proved very troublesome; others which ran 
* on to the chronic indurated stage succumbed to the ad¬ 
ministration of Iodine and Mercury internally, and the 
application to the glands of the Ung. Iodini. I have four 
