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CASES DEPARTMENT. 
In January last a lady of this city brought me for treatment, 
or rather to destroy, a little female pug about six weeks old. The 
little fellow was suffering vitli rachitis—her legs bent and de¬ 
formed ; her body emaciated; her head unusually large; her 
eyes prominent; and she was almost unable to stand up, or to 
take any nourishment. 
She was, however, so well bred that I felt interested in trying 
to save her. I had her put under strong feeding, meat (raw), 
beef extract, lime, salt, phosphates, &c. In a short time she 
began to improve, and about the beginning of March she had 
developed into a handsome little beast, apparently in perfect 
health, with the exception of an eruption of eczema all over her 
body, the result, undoubtedly, of her mode of feeding. 
One evening, about the first part of March, she was, while 
sleeping on a lady’s lap, taken suddenly with an epileptic fit. 
She fell down, and did not get over her fit until late in the even¬ 
ing, from which time for forty-eight hours, she remained entirely 
paralyzed, lying down and unable to move, and was fed and 
nursed in that position. On the third or fourth day she began to 
recuperate and get stronger on her fore part. She raised her 
head, then moved one fore leg, then the other, and in about a 
week was apparently entirely over her loss of power, except in 
her hind quarters, which from the dorso-lumbar articulation was 
entirely powerless,, her paraplegia being well marked from 
the loins backwards. She was placed under nervous stimulants, 
nux vomica, electricity, etc., but with no other result than that 
her legs became sensitive to pinching and pricking, and she 
could move them when they were irritated; she could even carry 
them to her mouth and bite them. But she was entirely unable 
to get up, and, if raised, «she could not stand. When held up, 
her vertebral column presented a normal direction from the neck 
backwards as far as the posterior part of the back, but at that 
point it suddenly rose and formed a curvature upwards, and from 
that point the paraplegia began. 
After about four weeks of vain’attempts at treatment, she 
was chloroformed, and a post mortem made. 
The intestines presented n number of lumbricoids, commonly 
