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an agent that, in the doses he gave it, perhaps did little 
either good or harm, and with many such remedies this is 
the proper dose. The only marked effect that I ever noticed 
belonging to this “ favourite agent,” whether in large or 
small doses, was that it gave the animal much trouble from 
the tingling sensation it is said to produce in the mouth, and 
a very visible flow of frothy saliva, both of which may be of 
some curative value (?) 
I do not purpose giving the symptoms of each of the cases 
in detail, as they are well known to all who will take any 
interest in this paper, but will only speak of cases that, had 
I the power of the newly attached and very valuable co- 
editor of this Journal as a delineator, I would simply send a 
send a sketch a la Mayhew of an animal suffering from this 
disease, as the shortest, most characteristic, and, perhaps, the 
most impressive method of describing tetanus practically. 
In the absence, then, of pictorial illustration, let each 
member draw upon the impression left on his retina by his 
last case, and I do not think he will have much difficulty 
in supplying the hiatus left by my illustrative incapability. 
When I speak of a case as being traumatic, I mean that 
some visible or known injury exists, or did lately exist, to 
which we attribute the induction of the disease ; when of idio- 
pathic, that after careful examination no lesion can be found, 
nor does the attendant know of any injury that (although 
leaving no mark) could have induced the attack. 
This quite intelligible distinction I believe to be of little 
consequence, further than if one was to pay no attention to 
it they might overlook an important element in the treat- 
ment of the case, viz. the local treatment ; otherwise, as far as 
I have had any experience, the course and termination of the 
two varieties are precisely alike. 
I look upon a case of so-called traumatic tetanus as more 
likely to yield to proper treatment, because you have the 
whole facts before you, so to speak, whereas in the idiopathic 
form the distinction often depends upon the carefulness 
with which the practitioner prosecutes his search, so that 
the same case might be idiopathic to one and traumatic to 
another observer. 
Case 1 . Idiopathic tetanus; recovered . — A chestnut geld- 
ing, eight years old, nearly thorough-bred, the property of 
W. H. Wakefield, Esq., Sedgwick, had been in a straw 
yard all the winter, along with another horse. On careful 
examination, at the time of the attack, no injury could be 
found. The weather, for some time before, had been very 
