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mouth, with difficulty in eating and drinking, the penis is erect and the 

 muscles of the body are hard and outlined, the animal is nervous and 

 anxious; the pulse and temperature are generally little altered. In one 

 case there was an elevation of temperature; the case recovered. The 

 duration of the disease is about a week, but it may vary. As recoveries 

 are recorded from time to time, it cannot be regarded as always incurable. 



Therapeutics. — The treatment is generally palliative. The wound 

 must be examined and treated with antiseptics, and use such sedatives 

 as morphine, dilute hydrocyanic acid, chloral; it must be remembered 

 the most important matter is to keep up the animal's strength with 

 easily digested food — scraped meat, beaten up eggs. Where the trismus 

 makes it impossible to administer food by the mouth, it should be given 

 in the form of nutritive clysters. 



Tetanus antitoxin may be tried; the dose is 5 c.c. daily. 



