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TETANUS CURED BY ETHER. 
and panting. For a moment he was drawn up in every part; his 
neck was ewed, his head perpendicular; the limbs, the fore 
especially, stretched out to the utmost, were collected under the 
centre of gravity as though the animal were going to make a 
spring ; the countenance was drawn up, the nostrils dilated ; and 
the lips and mouth beslabbered with saliva. 
This tetanic spasm lasted ten minutes. Gradually, calm re- 
turned; and soon afterwards the animal relapsed into a sound 
sleep: without being wholly under the influence of sleep from 
etherization, he remained listless to every thing around him; 
often, indeed, not feeling the puncture of any sharp body. 
The phenomena just described commenced at half past 10 o’clock 
A.M., and terminated at mid-day. 
In the afternoon, the horse experienced sensible relief. To the 
muscular spasm succeeded remarkable flaccidity. Perspiration, 
circulation, exterior plight, all contrasted strangely with their state 
in the morning. He now masticates hay held out to him, and con- 
trives to dilate the pharynx for the alimentary bolus. 
About three o’clock the patient again declined. Spasm once 
more seized his muscular system, commencing by constriction of 
the jaws, as evinced by the grinding of his teeth, again to be 
heard ; profuse sweats bedew the flanks, neck, sides, and interval 
between the anterior and posterior limbs. In a word, the disease 
has returned in the same character it presented before the ether- 
ization. 
JUNE 13. — The animal’s condition is not changed. Etherization 
is applied the same as before, only more ether is used. The 
operation commenced at half past eight and terminated at three- 
quarters past ten o’clock. The animal displays the same symp- 
toms nearly as before. He plunges violently, throws himself 
backwards, struggles, trembles all over, standing with the fore 
limbs bent ; the skin is covered with perspiration ; the pupil is 
quite dilated ; at last, he fell down in his stall like a lifeless mass. 
In the course of his agitation he had disencumbered himself of his 
inhaling apparatus; and the sleep now produced by the etheriza- 
tion was less profound and enduring than the former one. At the 
expiration of twenty minutes he was roused up again, and there 
was evident already a diminution of the spasm. The weather being 
very fine, he was walked out for a little while in the hospital yard : 
breathing the external air seemed of service to him, indeed, in the 
course of his walk he commenced neighing and changing his legs. 
In returning to his stable there was manifestly commencing a 
general flaccidity ; the appetite admitted of gratification ; he seized 
the hay, and swallowed about five pounds. Up to about four o’clock 
in the afternoon, the essential characters of tetanus, the muscular ten- 
