742 
TETANUS CURED BY CASTRATION. 
tinued and cruel work ; and on the last night he was brought 
home covered with sweat. Being taken into the stable, he re- 
fused his food, was considerably agitated, and bent almost every 
joint with considerable difficulty. This was naturally attributed 
to over-fatigue. The owner paid little attention to what was going 
forward, and pretended that the horse would be well enough in the 
morning. In the morning, however, it was sufficiently .evident 
that the animal was seriously ill ; and the proprietor, beginning to 
fear that he had used him sadly ill, sent for a veterinary surgeon 
without delay. 
Bleeding was immediately effected — the animal was placed in 
a vapour-bath — no cold air was suffered to blow upon him, and he 
was covered with clothing. Half a feed of corn was placed before 
him the whole of which he slowly ate. 
Eight days afterwards passed without any amelioration in the 
state of the patient. The stiffness of the muscles of the limbs had 
insensibly increased, as well as those of the croup and the chest ; 
but the grinding of the teeth did not prevent the animal from seiz- 
ing his food and masticating it. 
The proprietor, impatient, no doubt, to obtain once more the ser- 
vice of the animal, conceived the idea of consulting a low fellow in 
the neighbourhood, who inserted four setons in the poor creature, 
two in the breast and two in the thighs, and ordered a mode of 
treatment so complicated that M. Hezard, feeling the impossibility 
of executing that which was desired, ordered him to be taken to 
the hospital at Alfort. 
At the period of his being taken into the hospital there was more 
or less irregularity of the different parts of his frame. His walk 
was slow, difficult, and painful ; there was scarcely any motion in 
any of the joints, but they were reduced by their inflexibility to the 
state of solid columns. The ears had a straightforward direction 
— the eyes were continually twinkling — the nostrils were dilated, 
and surmounted by a succession of small folds of the skin, which 
gave to the face a singular expression. The trismus was not suf- 
ficiently pronounced to prevent the play of the jaws, so that the 
animal experienced great difficulty in seizing and masticating the 
food that was given to it. The respiratory functions were accele- 
rated — the thorax dilated — the pulse small and quick. The beat- 
ings of the heart were accelerated and tumultuous. 
The prognosis is serious. There is no other hope of saving the 
animal than to administer two grains of opium in a mild electuary, 
and lavements, several times in the day, with a decoction of poppy 
heads. If on the following day there is any amelioration, two addi- 
tional grains of the extract of opium are to be administered, opiate 
lavements also used, and dry frictions over the whole of the body. 
