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analogy between the disorder in the animal to that in the 
human being. Hurtrel D’Arboval is the only veterinary 
author we remember just now to have described the same 
thing. The occurrence being a sort of rara avis in no¬ 
sology, we shall copy Mr. Haycock’s account, without being 
convinced, in our own mind, that our nomenclature has, in 
this instance, received a legitimate addition : 
“ Hysteria . 
“ I have ventured to append the above name to the head 
of the present article to designate a peculiar affection which 
I, on three occasions, have had to treat in mares, the like of 
which I have never been able to read any account of either 
in our veterinary journals or our best treatises upon horse 
pathology. The analogy of the affection in question to 
hysteria, was first suggested to me by my friend and excel¬ 
lent practitioner, Mr. James Moore, Y.S., of Manchester, 
and from what I am enabled to gather respecting the disease 
hysteria from Dr. Copland’s e Medical Dictionary,’ it appears 
to me that the affection bears a very close similarity, in its 
broad or general features, to that disease, and on that 
account I venture to call it hysteria. 
“Symptoms .— In all cases of this nature which I have 
treated, the disease commenced very suddenly; they (the 
subjects thereof) began to exhibit an unusual degree of rest¬ 
lessness—to perspire profusely, which symptoms or states 
were speedily succeeded by a disposition to lie down—by 
great sluggishness, loss of motor power in the hind limbs— 
violent spasm of the large muscles of the loins and hind 
quarters (the gluteal muscles were excessively cramped) and 
the shoulders; the pulse in two of them rose from sixty to 
eighty beats per minute, and the respirations were greatly 
increased; they made severe efforts to rise upon their feet, 
but from the total loss of all motor power in the hind limbs, 
they were unable to do so; two out of the three every now 
and then strained violently, and ejected ,per vaginam , excessive 
quantities of coffee-coloured urine, which consisted princi¬ 
pally of blood; the perspiration was excessive also. In two 
cases the more violent symptoms subsided for a time; they 
became cool in the skin, and partook of food and water, but 
were totally unable to rise ; this improvement, however, did 
not prove of any long duration; they commenced struggling 
again with renewed violence with the fore limbs, and con¬ 
tinued to do so until they died. Both the cases to which I 
