TWELVE CASES OF TETANUS. 
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taken to a fair with some others, and had been badly treated, 
by’ their horns. Considerable bruises were to be found on 
many places of the body. She had also been chased about 
a good deal. Not having been sold, she was brought home, 
and in about a week after she was noticed to be getting 
“ small-looking,” and feeding badly, although always at it. 
I saw her a day or two after, and found a small bit of hay 
sticking out of her mouth. On letting her out into the fold 
the stiltiness of muscular spasm was manifest ; her nose was 
pocked out, a frothy rim of saliva round the lips, neck bent 
downwards, and could only move “ all of a heap.” The 
jaws could be opened about as much as would admit the neck 
of an ordinary bottle. I had her removed to a suitable 
place, and commenced the same plan as before described, 
modified to suit the different subject. The bowels being 
torpid, I introduced calomel ^ij dry into her mouth. This 
animal would not at first take the medicine herself, and the 
tube had to be used a few times, but by and by she came 
to it. One circumstance in particular gave much trouble in 
this case, viz. hoven, sometimes to a very great degree ; this 
symptom was combated by the use of the hollow probang, 
which succeeded well. Duration of disease three weeks. 
Case 3. Idiopathic tetanus ; recovered. — A colt, nearly a 
year old, cart-breed, belonging to the same. Supposed 
cause, exposure to cold after galloping in the field. Nothing 
unusual appeared in this case ; symptoms were well marked, 
jaws not so close when not interfered with, as may be 
observed in trying to get a bit of carrot into his mouth. (I 
have frequently noticed that when the tetanic patient was 
undisturbed he could take up a bit of carrot, turnip, potato, 
&c., that you could not have opened his jaws to admit.) This 
animal was so wild, never having been handled, that it made 
him almost opisthotonotic catching him, so that this was not 
repeated. The advantage of the voluntary system of 
drugging is here very apparent. Duration of disease one 
month. 
Case 4. Traumatic tetanus ; recovered. — A cart-mare, 
aged, the property of Earl Bective, while in harness slipped on 
the ice, came down, and broke her knees slightly. This did 
not interfere with her work. About a week after she was 
noticed stiff and off her feed, and “ slavering.” She got a few 
days’ rest, but, not getting any better, I had to see her. 
Found the knees about right, but unmistakable tetanic 
rigidity of the muscles of the neck, back, tail, and ex- 
