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2 . — A Case of Recovery from Idiopathic Tetanus through 
Castration. 
[By M. Valtat, V.S. at Paris.] 
After shewing the grave nature of tetanus in horses, and how 
frequently are found to fail all curative measures employed to 
counteract it, M. Valtat calls to mind some successes he has obtained 
in idiopathic tetanus through the employment of castration ; not 
recommending the operation under a violent attack of tetanus, 
but warning us not to reject it when the progress of the disease is 
tardy. 
M. Valtat concludes his paper with the history of the case of a 
horse, which induced him to make the circumstance known to the 
Society. The animal had been ill a week ; every medicament 
recommended in such a case had been tried in vain : at last re- 
course was had to castration a testicules converts , as a forlorn 
hope. Ten days afterwards the horse went to his work. 
*** British veterinarians rarely have an opportunity of testing 
the efficacy of this novel remedy for tetanic diseases. — Ed. Vet. 
3 . — Pneumonia in Horses. 
[By M. Prange, V.S., formerly in the army ; now at Paris.] 
Notwithstanding pneumonia in horses, complicated or not with 
gangrene, is a malady well enough known at the present day, M. 
Prange has devoted his attention afresh, and with a careful minute- 
ness, in all its phases and complications, to a disease of the kind 
which, in 1841, prevailed enzootically among the horses of the 
8th Regiment of Hussars. 
What was remarkable in this malady was, that the thirty-one 
animals attacked with it died in from the third to the sixty -second 
day of gangrene of the lungs. M. Prange attributed the disease, 
and especially the gangrenous character it assumed in almost 
every case, to circumstances connected with the events of 1840, 
and to the unhealthy quarters the regiment, at that time at Lune- 
ville, occupied. Without commenting on the pernicious influence 
excited by such causes as are here mentioned in animals affected 
with pneumonia, we may briefly state the fact, that, during the 
first six months of the year 1841, the horses of the 8th Hussars 
were not the only ones attacked by the disease described by M, 
Prange ; and that, in several other instances, gangrene proved its 
termination. 
The other “ Memoirs” appended to the Report are without 
interest. 
