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desirable to reduce to quiet arterial action I — one might be led to 
infer that he considered the successful treatment of his case de- 
pended on the reduction of arterial action by the tobacco. This 
I may take the liberty of examining. No doubt there is great 
vascular action in tetanus, but I should conceive that this was the 
effect, not the cause, of the disease. 
I remember seeing a case in The Lancet , where a patient was 
dosed with intoxicating draughts of alcohol, and, while the effect 
lasted, it was accompanied by a total remission of the symp- 
toms, and quiet and refreshing slumber. This treatment was tried 
in a case at the Edinburgh College (where, by the way, there was 
a terrible ado to get the whiskey), but instead of being given by the 
mouth, it was, after being diluted, introduced into the jugular vein. 
We all know the sympathy existing between the stomach and 
nervous system, and this, together with the unfair trial it received, 
may account for its failure. 
In conclusion, I should consider that opium, containing, as it 
does, a stimulating as well as sedative principle, ought to be, 
theoretically speaking, superior to tobacco, hellebore, et hoc omne 
genus, notwithstanding Mr. Davies’s successful case ; and the more 
so, in my opinion, as I have not found opium to possess the same 
tendency in the lower animals to produce the febrile excitement 
so often sequent on its exhibition to the human being. 
FARTHER REMARKS ON BREECH PRESENTATION 
IN COWS. 
By J. Horsburgh, M.R.C.V.S . , Dalkeith. 
In your last Number there is a letter from Mr. Barlow, making 
some remarks on the cases of breech presentation in difficult par- 
turition in cows, published in your Number for August, p. 434; 
and as that paper was by me*, I beg to make a few remarks on 
the additional means of delivery as furnished by him. Also 
(as my method of operating seems not to be properly understood 
by Mr. B.) to furnish such information as may render amputation 
of the posterior extremities at the hip-joint in these cases a matter 
of very little difficulty. 
In the first part of his remarks there seems to be very little 
difference of opinion as to the way of bringing up the foot. He 
thinks it not necessary to reach the foot with the hand. What- 
* We knew the hand-writing, we thought; and yet, the signature being 
doubtfully written, we durst not hazard its appendence. — Edit. Vet. 
