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the nasal passages. Slight lachrymation, showing the glands 
were resuming their function. A small evacuation from the 
"bowels. Returning sensitiveness of the skin, exhibited by the 
movement of the pannicnlus to resist flies. 
On our next visit, at 7.30 p. m., cow was lying in natural po¬ 
sition without assistance, and partook of a gruel, which she 
seemed to relish. 
At 8 P. M. she was on her feet. 
From the time the animal first became affected, until she 
was up, must have been only about forty hours. 
We may state that during the attack the cow was turned 
frequently from one side to the other, the udder kept stripped, 
and injections per rectum and vagina. 
This case seems to be another added to the list of successes 
following the strychnia treatment, one of which was recorded 
by Dr. Herbert S. Perley as recently as the February issue of 
the Review. 
This treatment is recommended in Friedberger and Froh- 
ner’s work, and of course can hardly be looked upon as new, al¬ 
though we do not think it is by any means in common use. It 
is certainly worthy of more extended trial, being, as it appears 
to us, extremely rational, and from results, promisingly success¬ 
ful. 
MYEEITIS IN a DOG—RECOVERY. 
By Robert W. Ellis, D.V.S., New York City. 
My attention was called to the case in question on Jan. 9 
last; when I found the subject, a fox terrier dog, about eight 
years old, suffering with paraplegia of hind extremities, involving 
the rectum and bladder. 
There was temporary anorexia, which I attributed to the fact 
that constipation had existed for two or three days. Although 
he could not stand or even wag his short butt of a tail, he would 
respond to his name when called, by traveling after you on his 
forelegs, trailing his hind ones after him, the muscles of which 
were so relaxed that the limbs would cross each other when he 
would turn from a straight course. 
I began treatment by administering a dose of u salts,” which 
I have found to be quite as responsive in the canine as in the 
human subject, and from the convenience of its form for carrying 
It always in the pocket, so that you can dissolve a teaspoonful 
and administer it at a moment’s notice, I have adopted its use 
almost entirely in canine practice, to the exclusion of the oleagi- 
