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TETANUS CURED BY ETHEIl. 
To-day was visible considerable amelioration in our patient 
day by day the disease is wearing itself out; the patient eats 
slowly, and with little difficulty consumes his full ration, being 
ten pounds of hay, the same quantity of straw, six pounds of 
oats, and four bunches of carrots. 
June 16, 17, and 18. — Our attention was directed to the rectal 
excoriations. The passage of the excrementitious matters and the 
frictions of the tail have produced a vast denuded surface, with a 
disposition in certain places to gangrene. Irritative fever is the 
consequence. Measures are taken accordingly. 
June 21. — 'The wounds have assumed a healthy aspect ; they 
are in progress towards cicatrization. Inflammation is passing 
away, and the constitutional fever along with it. Respiration and 
circulation have almost returned to their natural rhythm. The 
appetite is good again. The movements comparatively free. In 
the course of his walks he neighs, and dances, and seems tired of 
his repose. 
From the 22d June to the 12th July, the date on which he left 
the hospital, all the tetanic symptoms underwent sensible diminu- 
tion : every day amendment was visible. By degrees nearly the 
whole of the muscular system recovered its normal properties. 
Tension and stiffness continued up to the 5th July in the extensor 
muscles of the limbs, and principally in the constrictor muscles of 
the jaws, which re-acted but very imperfectly on the alimentary 
cud. And this caused a necessity, from time to time, up to the 
day of his departure, to remove the cuds lodged within the pouches 
of his cheeks, in order to restore the free exercise of manducation. 
*** Will not this case incline some veterinarian, the first oppor- 
tunity he may have, to test chloroform in tetanus 1 — Ed. Yet. 
Extracts from Domestic Journals. 
MR. BRANSBY COOPER. 
[From “ The London Mercury.”] 
No one is more opposed to the hospital exclusive system than 
we ; but as in the days of the old borough-mongering parliament 
a man of genius occasionally appeared, so in those of existing 
medical monopoly one of ability at rare intervals is found. The 
gentleman whose name stands at the head of this article may be 
adduced as an instance of the remark. He is one of the 
“ Rari nantes in gurgite vasto” — 
