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CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
With regard to therapeutics, thermometrical explorations 
give the most certain indications as the antipyretic agents 
to be employed. The most frequently utilised are digitalis, 
veratrine, and the sulphate of quinine. The latter, either by 
its influence on the moderating organ of temperature, or at 
the same time by its antifermentative action, has been recog¬ 
nised as useful in febrile conditions, zymotic and septic, 
acute infectious diseases, &c.* 
To this discourse is annexed a series of explanatory or 
complimentary notes, amongst which are found those on the 
physiological temperature of man and animals according to 
various authorities, and among them Krabbe .*—Annates cle 
Med. Veterinaire , February, 1873. 
CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
The usual monthly meeting of the above Society was held at 
10, Red Lion Square, W.C., on Thursday morning, March 6th, 
the President, J. J. Mavor, Esq., in the chair. The President 
brought forward a portion of the spinal cord from the lumbar 
region of a horse the subject of sciatica, ending in paralysis ; 
the horse first appeared unwell on the 25th of the last month, 
and the next day when in harness was suddenly seized with spasms 
of the lumbar muscles, and became excessively lame. Being 
brought to his box a sedative was administered, and Belladonna 
rubbed over the loins; the horse fell down and lay in great pain, 
eventually he became paralysed, and on the 1st inst. the post-mortem 
appearances were not very satisfactory; there appeared slight lace¬ 
ration of the muscles near the pubes. The spinal cord was firm, 
the periosteal membrane injected and full of sero-sanguineous 
fluid. 
Mr. J. Roalfe Cox then related a case of phrensy; the subject 
was a well-bred horse which was turned out at his farm, and on 
being gently exercised in a field commenced cringing in a re¬ 
markable manner, then plunging he furiously bolted (the rider 
having dismounted) ; being eventually got into an adjoining box 
he was shut up and left alone. A few days later Mr. Cox was 
sent for, and finding him the subject of spasm of the gastro- 
cnemii muscles treated him accordingly; two days later a telegram 
was received to say the animal was mad, the symptoms consisting 
in quick deer-like running round the box, the hind legs being 
drawn up under him. The horse was destroyed. On post-mortem 
* See the Veterinarian for January, 1873. 
