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his science ; however learned he may be. The dis- 

 ease may terminate quickly. We have known a horse 

 to die of it in less than thirty hours. So speedy a 

 close, however, is rather unusual. The animal with 

 idiopathic tetanus often lingers. It occasionally hap- 

 pens that the horse does not begin to amend until ten 

 or twelve days have elapsed ; and in one case that oc- 

 curred in the practice of the editor of this work, a month 

 passed without more than an occasional remission of 

 the symptoms. The treatment was, nevertheless, 

 persevered in, and the animal eventually recovered. 



When the horse does begin to get better, not a 

 particle of medicine should be administered. By 

 giving tonic medicines much dangerous excitation 

 may be produced. The best tonic is nourishing food, 

 and even that should be supplied with caution. Green 

 meat will in these cases be useful. If the weather, 

 however, will admit of it, after the recovery is con- 

 firmed, a run for two or three hours every day will be 

 of essential benefit. 



PALSY. 



The horse is seldom or never subjected to that kind 

 of palsy which oftenest attacks the human being, — 

 palsy of one side; nor has he ever general palsy. 

 When it does occur in its most developed form, it is 

 usually paralysis of the hinder limbs, and then it is 

 rarely complete ; but the motion of the parts is rather 

 deteriorated than lost. It may be the consequence of 

 disease. Much stiffness of gait always accompanies 

 inflammation of the kidneys, and sometimes it degene- 

 rates into palsy; which has also been the consequence 



