268 CASE OF TETANUS TREATED WITH BELLADONNA. 
In a few days the smell became so offensive that none of the 
servants would dress his wounds. I injected warm water into 
the wounds from above downwards, and forced a yellow and 
bloody matter down the nose to the extent of about half an Eng- 
lish pint ; I then injected a quantity of the chloride of lime, and, 
in a short time after, I dressed it with a mixture of turpentine and 
oil, and continued this treatment, along with laxative and fever 
medicines, for several weeks, until the discharge dried up. At 
the expiration of seven weeks the bone was united, and he was 
discharged. He was fed, by means of the horn, with thin gruel 
and mashes of bran. 
He has never had an attack of staggers to such a considerable 
degree since he met with the accident as he had before, except- 
ing once, when he had a very severe attack of them. When I 
have had occasion to fear a return of the staggers, I administer 
laxative and fever medicines, and enemata of sulphate of mag- 
nesia, and have never bled him since his jaw was broken. 
A CASE OF TETANUS TREATED WITH BELLADONNA. 
By Mr. S. G. Holmans, V. S., Ash, Kent . 
In August 1842, my attention was requested to a bay coach- 
horse, aged, the property of a lady at Margate, that had received 
a wound upon his stifle occasioned by a kick from another horse. 
I treated it accordingly, and at the end of three weeks he was 
put to work apparently perfectly recovered. 
Upon his return from work a few days afterwards he was con- 
sidered to be very ill, and I was again sent for. I found him 
labouring under that direful malady tetanus. 
The symptoms are too well known for me to repeat them here ; 
suffice it to say, that, in this case, they were very marked. 
I immediately abstracted four quarts of blood, and adminis- 
tered §j of aloes in solution. I back-raked him, administered 
enemata, and applied the extract of belladonna along the spine. 
This I was led to do from having heard it highly extolled in 
such cases by Professor Spooner, when I was a pupil at the 
College. 
The next day there was no abatement of the symptoms, and 
in the evening I gave tinct. crotoni ^j, and again applied the bel- 
ladonna. 
On the following morning the bowels had acted, and there was 
