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TETANUS TN A BULL. 
By Mr. W. Baker, Sudbury. 
Sir, — I BELIEVE cases of tetanus among neat stock to be of rare 
occurrence. I met with one about eighteen or twenty years ago, 
at Mr. Eldred’s, of Glemsford, and which case I noted at the time, 
but cannot now find it. I recollect that no cause could be assigned, 
but that the limbs were very stiff, with the tail and back up, &c., 
and the animal suffering much pain. The jaw was not so firmly 
locked as to prevent our introducing fluids by means of a long- 
necked drink-tin. The medicine given was asafoetida, opium, and 
sulph. magnes. sufficient to keep a proper state of bowels, mus- 
tard was also made into a fluid with hot water, and rubbed over 
the spine, and covered with flannel until the poultice was dry, and 
then repeated ; and in three or four days the animal was recovered. 
The only other case in my practice is the following, which 
brought to my recollection the above : — A Mr. Hills, of Great Wal- 
dingfield, had a two-year short-horned bull cut by a castrator in 
his neighbourhood on the 10th of October last. They considered 
him to be doing well until the 20th, when he was turned into a 
close yard, out of which he got by jumping a faggot- fence and 
then some field- fences, in order to get to the cows. He was taken 
up immediately, and again housed. 
On the 23d he was observed to be stiff in his limbs, and slaver- 
ing at the mouth, which, gradually getting worse, I was sent for 
on the 28th. I found him so set fast in his limbs as to be scarcely 
able to walk ; the eye very prominent, and apparently nearly forced 
from the orbit; his back was up, and tail extended, and his jaw so 
closely locked that, after half an hour’s trial, I found it impossible 
to administer the least thing. He was ordered to be slaughtered. 
The scrotum, &c. appeared to have healed, and seemed as usual 
after the same lapse of time from the operation. Should the above 
be worthy of notice, make what use of it you think proper. If 
the publication of such rare cases are of no other use, they will tend 
to remind the student and young practitioner, that he may expect 
to meet with such diseases among neat stock as well as with horses; 
and should it be the means of eliciting the experience, & c. of gen- 
tlemen of greater standing in veterinary practice than myself, I 
shall feel much gratified. 
[Mr. Baker will have done the profession service, if he should sti- 
mulate some of his brethren to favour us with an account of the 
causes and treatment of tetanus in cattle. The Editor of this 
