TWELVE CASES OF TETANUS. 
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a box, and rest, fomentations, bandages, &c., used. After 
about a week tetanic symptoms appeared, and continued for 
three weeks. No treatment, but attention to general comfort 
and quietness. 
Case 10. Traumatic tetanus ; recovered. — Mr. Thomas 
Kendal, farmer, Park House, docked two very w T ell-bred 
two-year-old colts ; about a week after, one of them “ turned 
badly, in a strange way that he had never seen before and, 
notwithstanding all that he could do with the help of 66 good 
farrier books/’ &c., died on the fifth day, and now he came 
to say that the other was “ just going on in the same way.” 
I found the colt completely unable to move in his box, and 
very much distorted from irregular muscular action. The 
docked stump looked healthy. (The bleeding in both cases 
was stopped by a ligature an inch above the divided end, and 
to this, I have no doubt, the singular fatality may be attri- 
buted.) The usual treatment was commenced ; the colt did 
well until the first bottle of the medicine getting done, a day 
and a half was lost before a fresh supply was obtained, when 
a marked relapse took place ; after this steady improvement 
followed. Duration five weeks. 
Case 11. Idiopathic tetanus ; died . — Richard Knight, 
Esq., called at my place with a brown mare, four years old, in 
his drag. He “ could not understand what was up with her ; 
she had been as stiff as a crutch for three or four days and 
was taking nothing. Would I give her a ball or something ? ” 
This would have been a very difficult matter indeed ; on 
warning him of the serious nature of the case, he was very 
incredulous. I advised that she should be taken quietly 
home — a distance of miles. I followed, but could find no 
injury. Treatment as before. Duration three days. This 
mare was a bad taker, although her jaws were not so much 
fixed as some of the others. 
Case 12. Traumatic tetanus ; recovered . — A bay gelding, 
five years old, the property of John Garnett, Esq., of this 
town, sustained a contused wound on the front of the near 
fetlock (hind), by throwing himself down on the kerbstone 
in the street, during an obstinate fit. I saw him about a week 
after, when the usual signs of tetanus were apparent. Think- 
ing this was not a very serious case, and being anxious to try 
what the same plan of treatment would effect, omitting the 
acid, being handy for me, I saw him frequently, and would 
have had immediate recourse to the medicine if this had been 
necessary. No medicine. Duration three weeks. 
