A CASK OF TETANUS IN THE HORSE. 
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doubtedly they will, meet his eye, I would take the opportunity 
of thanking him for the many benefits I have derived from his 
valuable contributions to your Journal. In the hope of seeing 
many successful cases of deep firing related in the pages of The 
Veterinarian, 
I remain. See. 
A CASE OF TETANUS IN THE HORSE, CAUSED BY 
THE GALLING OF THE CRUPPER. 
Bp Mr. W. J. Hinge, F.S., Hounslow. 
December 16^/?, 1840, at 9 p.m., I was requested to attend an 
aged brown gelding, the property of a gentleman in my neigh- 
bourhood. I at once recognized that direful disease, tetanus, fully 
developed. The jaws were completely locked — the muscles rigid 
— the ears erect, as if listening to some sound — the tail elevated 
and quivering — the membrana nictitans partly drawn over the 
eye — the pulse 40— the respiration very much disturbed. 
On examination, I found a wound under the tail, six inches in 
length, one inch and three-quarters in breadth, and, in one place, 
nearly half an inch in depth, which, the owner told me, had been 
there during a considerable period. It was in a state of gan- 
grene. He had worked, with the crupper pressing upon him, on 
the previous day for about an hour in a very cold wind and severe 
frost. 
I at once bled him until he staggered; but this had little or no 
effect on the spasmodic contraction of the muscles. I then ap- 
plied a sheep-skin to his back and loins, and well clothed him 
up, and gave him forty drops of croton oil on his tongue, admi- 
nistering also an injection, and well stimulating his spine. The 
owner would not have him blistered. 
The saliva from his mouth was immense, which I imagine was 
caused by the spasmodic contraction of the muscles of the pha- 
rynx impeding the power of deglutition. He moved very unwil- 
lingly. On visiting him again in a few hours, the disease was 
still raging with all its fury, on seeing which the owner said he 
would have no more done for him. 
17th, at 6 p.m. — The pulse and respiration strangely increased, 
with less inclination to move. At 12 p.m. death closed the scene. 
[We insert this first communication from Mr. Hinge on account 
of the unusually violent symptoms and rapid progress of this 
horrible disease, and its being the first recorded case of tetanus 
arising from such a cause. — Y.] 
