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was the consequence of the parts being thrown out of use. 
Dress as before, &c. 
24th , — All going on favourably. Lameness much lessened ; 
wound nearly filled with granulations ; fracture cemented ; the 
muscles feel soft, and very much absorbed. There is paralysis of 
one of the labia pudendi ; the urine running down the thigh and 
excoriating the parts. I ordered a liquid blister to the whole 
quarter, thinking it would assist in restoring the lost tone and 
vigour of the parts. Dress with tinct. of myrrh. 
3 Oth . — Wound almost healed, and the lameness still decreas- 
ing, the muscle looking better and more firm to the touch ; the 
urine ejected a little better. I applied another blister, and 
dressed the wound as usual. 
July 1 1th . — The blister had acted well; lameness scarcely 
observable ; the ejection of the urine perfect; and the mare is 
well. 
20th . — Saw the mare this day, and she is now all right, and 
very playful. 
A CASE OF TETANUS. 
By Mr. W. Richardson, V. S., Oundle. 
Jim Crow, a black pony, not more than twelve hands high, 
three years old, the property of John Bullen, Esq., of Biggin 
Grange, near Oundle, in returning from Peterborough on the 
10th of July, slipped up and slightly grazed the skin from his 
knees. As the injury was of so trifling a nature, no notice was 
taken of it at the time, and he was turned out to graze in the 
park, as usual. 
On the 14th, having occasion to be at the Grange, the first 
object which caught my eye was poor little Jim Crow, not in a 
condition either “ to wheel about, or jump about,” but, to use 
the groom’s expression “ all of a piece.” He had been observed 
to be unwell on the night previous, and had been bled, and 
some castor oil administered to him. I immediately saw that 
his attack would terminate in tetanus, or, indeed, I might say 
that tetanus had already commenced. The head was protruded ; 
the nostrils expanded ; the muscles of the neck particularly 
rigid ; the gait straggling ; the pulse accelerated ; and the 
countenance depicting the greatest anxiety. The dung which 
he had voided during the day was small in quantity, and more 
resembled pellets of hard clay than natural faeces, owing to the 
contraction of the muscular coat of the intestines. 
I had him immediately removed into a loose stable, and admi- 
