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BELLADONNA IN TETANUS. 
wards of half a pint of fetid pus. The injection of Sol. 
Chlor. Calc, was continued, and tonic medicine given 
twice a day, which, with attention as to diet and the state of 
the evacuations, have been the means of treatment up to the 
17th of August, when scarce a trace remained of these formi- 
dable lesions. The walls of the abscess I have preserved ; 
they are of a white fibrous structure. The horse is now at 
grass, doing very well. 
I am, dear sir. 
Yours respectfully. 
BELLADONNA IN TETANUS. 
By James Austen, Salisbury. 
Sir, — If you think this worthy of insertion in your 
valuable publication, and if it draw attention so as to lead 
to good, it will prove a great source of satisfaction to me. 
I entered the Royal Veterinary College last October, and 
have attended one Session. I entered as a practitioner. I 
was sent by Mr. Moreton to Salisbury, to assist Mr. Stone, 
Veterinary Surgeon of this town, whose health is very in- 
different, and intend, if spared, to be at College again at the 
opening of the Session in October. I thought this reference 
might be required. 
I beg to remain, your obedient servant, &c. 
Never having had the opportunity before this of wit- 
nessing the effect of Belladonna in Tetanus, the following 
result may not be unacceptable to some of your veterinary 
readers. 
I was summoned on the 25th of July, 1853, at 6 a.m., to 
attend a cream-coloured gelding, five years old, the property 
of Mr. Stevens of this place. The man who had the care of 
the animal informed me, that three weeks ago it picked a 
large nail up into its foot, near the frog. It was taken to 
the smith’s shop, and the nail was withdrawn by the foreman 
of the shop, who undertook to “cure” him. After attending to 
the animal’s foot a week, he pronounced it “well,” and it w T as 
turned into a field near this town. I found him on my arrival 
in the middle of the field, with ears and tail erect, nostrils 
dilated, jaws unnaturally fixed, eyes drawn into the sockets, 
squinting outward, the nictitating cartilage being thrown over 
the cornea, and the regions of the neck, croup, and thighs, 
as hard as marble. I had the horse led gently from the field, 
