PECULIAE TO HORSES. 51 



tained, they should be fed liberally, or, what is much better, provided 

 the season permits, let the animal roam in a pasture. 



Whenever I have a case of this kind under treatment, I furnish 

 apples, beets, carrots, cabbages, or any other kind of vegetable that 

 I can procure, and I find that such articles are usually devoured 

 with a good relish. The object in feeding green food is to combat 

 the scorbutic diatheses which usually exists. 



The patient should also be allowed from five to seven quarts of 

 oats per day. 



When a horse with enlargement of the lower or upper jaw is 

 suddenly attacked with acute lameness, he should be placed in a 

 Avide stall, and the parts where the lameness appears to be located, 

 as well as the jaws, should be diligently rubbed, twice daily, with a 

 portion of the following : 



Spirits of Camphor 6 ounces. 



Cod Liver Oil 4 " 



Oil of Cedar 2 « 



Diluted Acetic Acid 1 pint. 



Mix. 

 Then procure the following : 



Chlorate of Potass 2 ounces. 



Powdered Ginger 4 " 



" Gentian 8 « 



« Podophyllum 2 « 



" Poplar Bark 6 " 



Mix. 

 - Dose : one oimce night and morning, to be incorporated with the 

 food. 



This treatment usually palliates the lameness. Should it not do 

 so, the owner must be patient and give nature time to restore the 

 animal to comparative usefulness. 



TETANUS. 



PRELiinNARY. — Two cascs of Tetanus having lately occurred in 

 my practice in the city of St. Louis, and both terminating favorably, 

 I have thought that I could not do a belter service to the readers of 

 this work than to give them the facts. The treatment was so simple 

 that any one might undertake the same feat, and I think that such 

 treatment is more likely to be successful than the old-fashioned 

 method. So far as my experience goes, I am satisfied that we are 

 apt to do too much (over-medicate) in this, as well as in other 

 diseases; and it often happens that the recuperative powers of na- 

 ture have to contend, not only with the original malady, but also 

 with one of a medicinal character, created by over-dosing ; and per- 

 haps this is the reason that has led some veterinary writers^o con- 

 tend that " tetanic affections, arising in consequence of a punctured 

 wound, are almost always sure to prove fatal.'''' 



Nature of Tetanus. — Tetanus must not be confounded with 

 trismus, or locked jaw, yet the former may run into the latter, and 



