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ACONITE VerSUS HYDROCYANIC ACID. 
a crackling noise similar to luxation of a joint when manipu- 
lated. I now applied an ordinary charge over the part, 
where it remained for nearly two months, only coming off 
with this changing of his coat. I again saw him at the end 
of that time and found that he could walk perfectly sound, 
but limped in trotting. A month afterwards he could go 
through all his paces sound, but when turning short in his 
gallop in the meadow it appeared to hurt him. This defect 
has since passed away, and beyond an ossification around the 
fractured part there is nothing to be detected. 
I had the pleasure to receive a letter from the owner 
yesterday, August 11th, saying that the colt “ is all right, 
and gallops like a steeple chaser.” I have no doubt that his 
extreme youth had much to do with the success of the treat- 
ment, though under the most advantageous circumstances 
cases of this kind are far from satisfactory ones to deal with . 
ACONITE versus HYDROCYANIC ACID AS 
REMEDIES IN TETANUS. 
By Andrew Simpson, M.R.C.Y.S., Kendal. 
This heading seems more appropriate than any other, as 
indicating the view which Mr. J. W. Hill seems to take of 
my record of a few cases of tetanus published in the June 
number of the Veterinarian , viz. that it was for the purpose 
of throwing discredit on aconite, by extolling the curative 
potency of hydrocyanic acid, that I troubled your readers with 
that paper. I now beg to correct this impression (if Mr. 
Hill still holds it), by referring him to the concluding 
remarks in that commuuication, in which he will find I lay 
more stress upon other things in the management of the 
tetanic patient than the medicinal agent employed, whether 
that be hydrocyanic acid, aconite, or anything else which I 
may be giving a trial to. 
I may also be allowed to remind Mr. Hill that his ex- 
perience (as he informs us), being confined to a solitary case, 
is not of that value which it would be could he give us the 
result of the treatment of a dozen. 
Fleming’s tincture of aconite (I never use any other) was 
at one time a favourite agent of mine, and w r as used mostly in 
every case where such an agent was supposed to be in- 
dicated — from a drop of it on cotton wool to the aching tooth 
of an attendant, to a drachm of it to a poor horse suffering 
from enteritis. In no case, however, have I observed the 
