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less at the time or not, they should have the wound 

 deeply burned out with lunar caustic. This incurable 

 complaint is caused by the bite of a rabid animal of 

 some kind, generally a dog. Horses have been known 

 to be seized with rabies simply from having licked a 

 mad dog after death. The writer once saw a mad 

 horse in Knightsbridge Barracks, which broke both 

 jaws in biting the manger, and when found the next 

 morning was trying to seize the manger with the broken 

 stumps of the jaw, all its top teeth being knocked out 

 and its bottom jaw broken off just below the tusk. The 

 animal was of course instantly shot. 



TETANUS OR LOCK-JAW. 



This disease to human beings as well as to the horse 

 generally proves fatal, yet as the writer has been success- 

 ful in two cases, the mode of treatment adopted will not 

 be out of place in these pages. This disease does not 

 manifest itself of a sudden, but generally steals over the 

 system by slow and insidious means. It first develops 

 itself by the animal appearing heavy, dull, and unwell 

 for a day or two. It feeds sparingly, frequently half 

 chewing its food, then letting it drop from its mouth. 

 When it drinks, the water is gulped instead of the 

 ordinary mode of taking it. The action of the jaw be- 

 comes extremely imperfect, and the saliva trickles from 

 the sides of its mouth. The mouth at length can be but 

 imperfectly opened, and ultimately the whole of the 

 voluntary muscles of the neck and upper portions of the 

 shoulders become immovably fixed. After this there is 



