PARALYSIS. 
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until the pupiR of the eyes become dilated. If there is a 
great amount of pain, hypodermic injections of morphine 
should be given, to relieve the intense suffering which marks 
spinal diseases. The animal should be kept as quiet as possi¬ 
ble, and free from excitement. The urine when there is re¬ 
tention must be drawn every five or six hours. Placing in 
slings is often beneficial, and care must be taken to empty the 
bladder before attempting to raise the animal with the slings, 
as the bladder when very much distended is apt to be rup. 
tured on applying so much force to the abdominal walls- 
Iodide of potassium, nux vomica, and the iodide of iron are in¬ 
dicated in the convalescent stages, and electricity may be ad¬ 
vantageously used to the affected muscles. 
Myelitis, inflammation of the substance of the cord, is a 
disease not usual in our patients, except as a sequel of spinal 
meningitis, and is to be treated in the same way as this dis¬ 
ease, but it is not usual for a recovery to be effected. Under 
this head of paralysis comes a number of local lesions and af¬ 
fections of the nerves, such as locomotor ataxia, where there 
is not a co-ordination of movements of the muscles of one or 
more limbs. When confined to the posterior limbs it may be 
classed as a form of paraplegia, and is to be treated as such. 
Facial paralysis is met with in some cases, and is manifes¬ 
ted by pendulous lips, flaccid cheeks, and inability to grasp 
food; this is best treated by a sharp blister over seat of 
trouble. 
Paralysis of the intestines is a disease which the prac¬ 
titioner may meet with, and can only be diagnosed by nega¬ 
tive symptoms; as when no results from cathartics can be 
obtained, and there is an absence of any signs of impaction or 
indigestion. It may be caused by sudden checking of per¬ 
spiration and to brain affections, or to reflex paralysis. 
Paralysis of the bladder is met with, and is to be decided 
upon much in the same way as that of intestines, by negative 
rather than positive signs. 
Amaurosis is a disease often met with, and one with 
which the practitioner ought to be very familiar, particu. 
larly in examination as to soundness. The eye looks nat- 
