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Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Annales de Medecine Veterinaire, Bruxelles, 
For June, 1859- 
INTERMITTENT LAMENESS CAUSED BY THE OBLITERATION 
OE THE ILIAC ARTERY. 
By Dr. Charcot, of the Hospital. 
This case occurred in a man, fifty-four years of age, of a 
strong constitution, a house-painter by trade. He had 
served in the African war in 1830, where he received a 
ball in the right groin, which had not been extracted. He 
followed the trade of house-painting ever since he left the 
service, and had been in good health with the exception of 
three or four attacks of painters’ colic. About eight months 
ago, just after he had eaten his dinner, he was suddenly taken 
with vomiting blood, after which he voided per anum a 
large quantity of the like fluid, but very dark coloured. This 
produced syncope, but three days after he "was well enough 
to return to his occupation. From this time, the symptoms 
which the author describes, appeared. When the patient 
walked for a quarter of an hour he felt in the whole of his 
right leg a weakness accompanied by numbness. If he at¬ 
tempted to continue his walk, dull pains, with pricking sen¬ 
sations, followed; which manifested themselves first in the 
penis, and extended to the thigh, leg, and foot. These were 
followed by severe cramps and stiffness of the leg, which he 
was unable to move, and the patient was obliged to sit 
down for a few minutes, after which, the symptoms having 
disappeared, he was able to continue his walk; but in 
about twenty minutes the same effect would be produced, 
and these paralytic attacks would recur five or six times 
in the course of an hour, but never while he was in repose, 
seated, or stationary. Locomotion alone would excite a 
recurrence of the attack. During the intervals, the limb 
was capable of the same motion, &c., as the other, and no 
unusual sensations were felt in it, but whether the tem¬ 
perature was lower during the accession, or if the skin was 
