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EFFECTS OF SULPHURIC ETHER IN A CASE OF 
TETANUS. 
By the Same. 
Although I give the following case on report, it perhaps 
may prove suggestive on some future occasion. 
Whilst conversing with the gentleman who owned the 
subject of the preceding case, respecting the same horse, 
and which he had that day been visiting in the marshes, he 
informed me that he had found an old pony, aged 20, which 
was turned out at the same place, in a most deplorable con- 
dition, being evidently, from his description, in an advanced 
stage of idiopathic tetanus. As the weather was very hot, 
and the pony had received no injury, it was supposed that 
a “coup de soliel 55 had been the cause of the attack. He 
described every limb as being stiffened and spasmodically 
jerked ; the muscles of the neck and jaws tense and hard, 
“like cords; 55 the membrana nictitans forced over the eye, 
and that one eye appeared as if it had been driven in. As 
the gentleman seemed quite certain of the hopelessness of 
the case, the pony being so old, and the exhaustion so great 
was not thought expedient to engage my professional attend- 
ance. I however advised him to try Sulphuric and Ether, 
which he accordingly did the same evening, using about 
3[iij, a portion of which was given in cold water, and the 
remainder the pony inhaled. The result was that the 
pony soon revived ; all the tetanic symptoms quickly disap- 
peared, the sunken eye resumed its fullness and natural 
appearance ; the limbs became pliant, and the muscles of the 
neck, which he had observed were like “cords, 55 became 
soft and flaccid, and the animal walked to its stable, about 
half a mile distant, and, although it subsequently died from 
old age and complete exhaustion, the symptoms of tetanus 
did not again return. 
RUPTURE OF THE VAGINA IN A MARE DURING 
PARTURITION. 
By J. Meyrtck, M.R.C.V.S., Newtown. 
At the latter end of last April, I was sent for to attend a 
mare, at a farm a few miles from here, which was unable to 
