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escaping my leg, and ran round the stable. I told the owner 
she did not require any further medical treatment, and was 
then informed, for the first time, that the farrier had given 
her an opening ball in the morning. I told him it was very 
wrong, as I had given him an express order not to alter the 
treatment : in about a week after this the owner wrote to me 
stating that on the day following my last visit the mare be- 
gan to purge, and continued to do so for three days ; she 
then got dow n and could not rise, the farrier then slung her, 
but could not stop the purging, and she died on the fourth 
day. 
Case III. 
May 10th, 1852. — I was called a distance of five miles to 
see a five-year-old cart mare, said to be very stiff from cold. 
On seeing her, I at once saw r she had tetanus coming on ; 
I then made inquiries, and found that she had picked up a 
nail about a week before, w-hich w T as taken out, and no fur- 
ther notice taken of it, not even the foot cut out : in fact, she 
had been put to cart-work that day to take off the stiffness. 
I gave a strong dose of physic in the shape of a ball, which 
she took without any difficulty; ordered the foot to be soaked 
in hot water for tw o hours, and afterwards stopped : as it w r as 
so hard it was next to impossible to cut it out properly. 
11th. — Symptoms about the same; cut the foot out well, 
the wound appeared to have healed, and did not require any 
dressing ; gave the foot a good soaking in hot water, the 
same as last evening ; the bowels not acted on, I administered 
another ball, composed of Belladonna and Aloes, of each jij; 
left a ball of the same to be given in the evening, if the 
bowels were not acting; repeated injections of warm w r ater 
during the day : to be kept as quiet as possible. 
12th. — Bowels acted on once during the night, but not 
soft; other symptoms much the same; I repeated the ball as 
' before, with repeated injections of warm water and tobacco 
smoke alternately ; left Extr. Belladonnae 3ij, to be put into 
the mouth in the evening. 
13th. — Jaw 7 s too close to be able to give a ball ; give the 
Belladonna, and continue injections ; bow T els acted once or 
twice after the injections ; drinks rather freely of gruel. 
14th, 8 a.m. — Breathes with such difficulty, that, had I my 
tracheotomy tube with me, I should insert it ; bow’els acted 
slightly after the injections ; continue Belladonna and in- 
jections. 
6 p.m. — Breathes with more difficulty than in the morning, 
all the other symptoms much the same ; opened the trachea 
