LOCKED JAW. Ill 



RECIPE (No. 47). 



Strong Physic Drink for Locked Jaw.— Take Barbadoes aloes, one ounce and a 

 half; the kernel of the croton nut, powdered, ten grains. Dissolve them in as si'mall 

 a quantity as possible of boiling water, and give them when the liquid is sufficiently 

 cool. 



Generally the jaw will be now sufficiently relaxed to permit the 

 introduction of the thin neck of a claret bottle into the mouth. The 

 best method, however, of giving medicine in this case is by the 

 assistance of Read's patent pump, the pipe of which, let the jaws be 

 fixed as firmly as they may, can generally be introduced, close to 

 and immediately before the grinders. 



The bowels having been opened, those medicines must be resorted 

 to which have the readiest and most powerful eiT(«ct in quieting the 

 nervous system. These are, as it regards cattle, opium and cam- 

 phor. 



RECIPE (No. 48). 



Jlnodyve Drink for Locked Jatc.— Take camphor, one drachm, rub it down in an 

 cunce of spirits of wine; to this add powdered opium, one drachm, and give the 

 mixture in a small quantity of thick gruel. 



This medicine should be administered three or four times every 

 day ; care being taken that the bowels are kept open, either by means 

 of aloes or Epsom salts. 



The bleeding should be repeated on the second day, if the animal 

 is not evidently relieved ; and as much blood should be again taken 

 as the patient can bear to lose. 



The stable or cow-house should be warm, and the animal covered 

 with two or three thick rugs. If considerable perspiration can be 

 excited, the beast is almost sure to experience some relief. 



While all this is done to lower the action of the nervous system, 

 the strength of the beast must be supported. He will not, or rather 

 he cannot eat; but he often looks very wistfully at his food. Let a 

 good mash, a little at a time, and moister than usual, be placed be- 

 fore him, a portion of which he will try hard to suck up. If he 

 manages this tolerably well he needs not to be forced with gruel or 

 any other nutriment; but if his jaws are too firmly fixed for this, the 

 small end of the pipe of Read's pump should be introduced into the 

 mouth, and as much thick gruel pumped down as the attendant 

 pleases. When the poor animal has been hungry for two or three 

 days through utter impossibility of eating, he will gladly enough 

 submit to this operation, and almost offer himself for it. 



It will be almost labour in vain to endeavour to stimulate the skin, 

 or to raise a blister. Two, three, or four setons in the dewlap have 

 been useful; and benefit has been derived from shaving the back 

 along the whole course of the skin, and cauterising it severely with 

 the common firing-iron. If it should be found impracticable to ad- 

 minister either food or medicine by the mouth, they must be given in 

 the form of clysters. Double the usual quantity of the medicine must 

 be given, on account of the probable loss of a portion of it, and the 

 small quantity that the absorbents of the intestines may take up ; out 



