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ON TETANUS, &C. 
1 2th. — There not being any great difference in the appearance 
of the tumours, the animal was caught again and cast. He 
was completely exhausted in the struggle, and I almost thought 
that he would have died. The ligature had eaten half way 
through the pedicle of the larger tumour on either side, and it 
was necessary either to tighten it or to excise the tumour. I had 
had enough of casting this poor fellow, and therefore had 
recourse to the knife. There was some little bleeding ; the 
exposed surfaces were therefore slightly touched with the hot 
iron, as well to stop the bleeding as to prevent the growth of 
future tumours. The smaller tumour was likewise excised. A 
little tar was then placed on the wounds, in order to keep off the 
flies, and the animal was liberated. 
18^/l — T he patient has gone on well until to-day, when he 
was observed to snatch eagerly at his mash, and then pause, 
with his mouth half closed upon it, and letting the greater part 
of it fall on the ground. His tail is stiff, in an almost horizon- 
tal position ; he stands rather wide behind, and walks stiffly, 
the stiffness being principally referable to the hind legs. The 
countenance expresses much anxiety and suffering. Tetanus 
is evidently coming on. His ears are unaffected, he readily 
moves them, and he holds them alternately, the one forward and 
the other backward. He does his best to eat every thing within 
his reach, but he cannot sufficiently masticate his hay ; it 
eventually drops from his mouth, and he can only manage a little 
mash. He was bled to nearly five quarts, and fifteen grains of 
the farina of the croton nut were given. 
19 th, 6 a.m. — If there had been any doubt before as to the 
nature of the case, it has now vanished. When I opened the 
stable door he started, and his tail sprung out, and remained in 
an horizontal position ; the muscles of the cheek and neck qui- 
vering violently. The eye is retracted into the orbit — the ear is 
now fixed, firmly so, but it is backwards instead of forwards — 
the pulse 80. There is a little natural dung, but no purging. 
Give him half an ounce of aloes in half a pint of linseed oil ; and, 
avoiding the wound, rub half a pint of spirit of turpentine well 
in all over him. Give him a mash, and a little coarse dry hay, 
in order to exercise the muscles of the jaws. 
1, p.M.— The bowels have not been moved, — the jaws are as 
nearly as possible closed. We attempted in vain to give him a 
drink composed of four drachms of aloes and one of ginger; and, 
being completely foiled, we got him into the trevis, and threw up 
an injection containing an ounce of aloes, and four ounces of 
spirit of turpentine. 
7 p.m. — A small portion of dung has passed from him of a 
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