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PUNCTURED FOOT, ETC. 
feed had not been consumed, which led me to make a 
careful examination of my patient, when to my surprise, I 
found that general tetanus had set in. I lost no time in 
employing the usual remedies ; attended to the node upon 
the metacarpal bone, and did everything else which I thought 
calculated to be of service. The case continued for three 
days, my patient getting gradually worse — hourly; indeed. 
All hopes were over from the first, as I believed the horse 
always, even during health, had a peculiar tetanic appear- 
ance, his movements being stiff, stilty, and ungraceful. The 
termination of the complaint was therefore anticipated. 
The animal died on the morning of the third day after 
the attack. The following morning I examined the chest. 
The heart, to use a phrase employed by the knacker, was 
as “flat as a pancake” It was soft, and nearly white in colour, 
and contained no blood ; the lungs were full of blood, and 
black in colour ; the intestines were much inflamed ; the 
stomach, all around the border of the cuticular coat, near its 
junction with the mucous coat, was eroded, like a net-work, 
this being produced by bots. The horse had not had any 
metallic preparation administered to him whatever, so that 
we must look to these parasites as the cause of these ap- 
pearances. 
The part of the leg operated upon was healthy. 
According to medical writers, either of the above diseases 
would produce tetanus, but I leave your readers to form their 
own conclusion. 
CASE OF PUNCTURED FOOT, AND FRACTURE 
OF THE NAVICULAR BONE. 
By J. Brown, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
On Tuesday, October 9th, 1855, I was requested to see a 
bay mare belonging to a town carman, which, they said, had 
been kicking violently in the cart — (this she was in the 
habit of doing) — and had lamed herself. I found, upon exa- 
mination, that she had picked up a large, rusty, carpenter’s- 
nail, which had entered the inside of the off hind foot, near 
the point of the frog. It had penetrated a considerable 
depth ; the pulse was quick ; the pain and lameness con- 
siderable I at once had the shoe taken off, and the foot 
well pared out all over. A great deal of bloody serum escaped 
from the wound. The foot was then soaked in hot water for 
