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the head, abdominal tumours, and hind legs, with mild 
liquid blister, discontinuing the cold applications. 
17th. — A very fetid discharge takes place *from both 
nostrils. The animal is able to breathe when the tube is 
closed up. In this state he continued for three days, the 
same treatment being adopted, with due attention to his 
general comfort. 
20th. — He appears much better; pulse 44, and respiration 
carried on through the nostrils. The swelling is rapidly 
disappearing, and he eats well. Remove the tube, and con - 
tinue the tonic and diuretic medicine as before ordered. 
From this time he gradually recovered, and was enabled to 
resume his work in a month after the attack. Crushed oats, 
and other nutritious food, were liberally allowed during 
his illness, and at no time did I adopt depletive measures. 
About the causes and pathology of this disease, I have been 
unable to gather scarcely anything, except that I consider it 
to be a disease of the blood, in which the amount of the red 
corpuscles is much smaller than in health : the vital fluid is 
also wanting in plasticity, caused by deficiency of fibrine, or 
some solvent action upon it, thus promoting the escape of the 
blood from its vessels. Or it may be a disease of the blood- 
vessels, active or passive congestion. 
THE INHALATION OF CHLOROFORM FOR 
TETANUS IN THE HORSE. 
By W. Hardwick, Slingsby. 
Looking over the contents of your August number my 
attention was directed to a paragraph respecting the inhal- 
ation of the vapour of chloroform in cases of tetanus in the 
human subject, and intimating a hope of its becoming practi- 
cable in similar cases in the lower animals. I beg leave to 
state that Mr. Snowdon, of Slingsby, administered it a short 
time ago with decided success in a case of traumatic tetanus, 
thus giving proof of its efficacy. The following are the 
details of the case, which may not prove uninteresting to the 
profession : 
On the 26 th of April, at 9 o’clock, a.m., Mr. Snowdon was 
called in to see a three-year-old gelding, the property of Mr. 
Brigham, Slingsby, which was found to exhibit all the 
symptoms of tetanus in a severe form. On inquiry he was 
