38 PKINCIPLES 01" VETEBINABT SUBGEEY 



How do you treat tetanus ? 



Keep the animal in a quiet and dark place. The applica- 

 tion of slings is of doiihtf ul value in the horse. Thorough 

 disinfection of all wounds, even the slightest ones. Inter- 

 ternally, chloral hydrate, bromide of potassium, fld. extr. 

 gelsemium, fld. extr. calabar bean, atropia, injections of 

 tetanus antitoxin. Internal medication in tetanus, to say the 

 least, is unreliable. 



What is the rate of mortality in tetanus ? 

 Between 70 and 80 per cent. 



What other infectious diseases may follow traumatism 9 



1. Wound diphtheria (Gangraena nosocomicalis) repre- 

 sents a coagulation necrosis of the granulations of a wound, 

 due to the action of a specific bacillus. In the croupous and 

 diphtheritic form the granulations change into a yellowish, 

 purulent necrotic mass; in the ulcerous form the granula- 

 tions change into a grey, mushy necrotic mass; in the 

 pulpous form the granulations are changed into a stinking, 

 decomposing, tarry, granular mass. 



2. Glanders. Primary skin glanders very rare ; infection 

 takes place about the head, extremities, along the belly, etc. 

 The glanders ulcers develop out of the infected wound. 



3. Rabies. 



4. Symptomatique anthrax. 



5. Anthrax. 



6. Wild plague, 



7. Tuberculosis. 



8. Botryomycosis. 



9. Actinomycosis. 



