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infected by tetanus, the antitoxin preventive treatment should be 

 employed. Immunity thus conferred lasts about a month and is 

 without danger. Repeat these injections of antitoxin at the end 

 of the first and third week, to prevent the intoxication caused by 

 belated crops of tetanus bacilli. Locally, any wound likely to con- 

 tain tetanus germs must be opened freely to the bottom and pure 

 phenol applied. Cover the navels of calves with iodoform. Bacelli's 

 carbolic acid treatment internally is the most successful for fully 

 developed tetanus, 330. Inject into muscles of the neck of horse 

 3i of pure phenol in 5 per cent, watery solution every two hours, 

 for first 36 hours, and less often thereafter. To relieve spasm of 

 jaw and elsewhere, give morphine (gr. vii-x), 368, subcutaneously, 

 with chloral (Jil-iii) in boiled starch solution by rectum, 318. Chlo- 

 roform by inhalation may give temporary freedom from spasm. 

 The use of slings, a quiet, darkened box-stall, and gentle manage- 

 ment are desirable. The diet should be of a sloppy character — 

 milk, gruels, and perhaps some green fodder, with water within 

 reach at all times. Empty the bowels manually or by enema; the 

 bladder by catheter or pressure within the rectum. Thorough dis- 

 infection of the premises after a case of tetanus is imperative. 



Texas Fever. See Hemoglobinuria in Cattle. 



Thick Wind in Horses. 



Treat as for Broken Wind. 



Thorough-Pin of the Hock and Knee. 



Tenosynovitis of the perforatus tendon just at the summit of 

 the OS calcis. Usually chronic, as hydrops of the tendon sheath. 

 In acute cases, apply a high-heeled shoe and secure rest, and apply 

 wet compresses and flannel bandage about the lower limb and 

 hock. In chronic cases, apply spring truss, or operate by aseptic 

 excision or curetting of wall of the sac and free drainage, to se- 

 cure obliteration of the sac and adhesion of the tendon to the 

 tendon sheath. There is considerable danger of sepsis, however, 

 in the operation. Aseptic aspiration of the sac and injection of 

 tincture of iodine or of carbolic acid (m.x-xx) may produce the 

 same result with less danger of infection. Unless the animal is 

 valuable, operation is inadvisable. Firing and blisters have little 

 curative value. Hydrops or hygroma of the common tendon sheath 

 of the perforatus and perforans at the back of the carpus. This 

 is treated exactly as recommended for hydrops or dropsy of the 

 perforatus tendon (thorough-nin) at the hock. 



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