326 CASES OF TETANUS, PUERPERAL FEVER, &c. 
On March 17th, 1839, I was sent for by Mr. Meredeth, of Tath- 
well, to examine a very fine blood-horse, that I had fired about three 
weeks before for curbs. He had received a violent blow above 
the orbit of the left eye, which had produced perfect amaurosis in 
the eye. On examining him, I found symptoms of tetanus that I 
could not mistake. I bled him until he grew very faint, blistered 
the spine and abdomen very extensively, and gave him an ounce 
of Cape aloes and four drachms of the extract of belladonna in a 
pint of warm water; and, with a great deal of difficulty, I adminis- 
tered an injection of warm water, containing in it two ounces of 
laudanum. I also inserted a large rowel in the chest. 
IS th . — There is very little difference in him. I cannot get him 
to swallow the medicine. He can, however, suck a very loose 
mash. I therefore gave him three drachms of the extract of bella- 
donna in a mash, and he, being a gross feeder, took it. The whole 
of the time that he remained under treatment, we were enabled to 
manage him in this way with the belladonna. The pulse had sunk 
from 64 to 50. 
20^A. — He was very costive, but we could not get any purgative 
medicine down him. The belladonna, however, he still continued 
to take. We administered three or four injections daily of warm 
salt and water, and this continued to keep his bowels tolerably 
open. 
30th . — He has been constantly and rapidly improving. He has 
taken two drachms of the extract of belladonna daily; and his 
bowels have been kept open by the injections of salt and water. 
He being so much better, I now discontinued my visits to him ; but 
I saw him a few days ago galloping up and down the Crew Yard. 
He is a noble and powerful animal, and well worth saving. 
I have had five cases of puerperal fever in cows, which have all 
done well from the liberal use of Epsom salts, croton seeds, and 
diffusible stimulants. 
I have attended several flocks of sheep — hogs — that were dying 
fast on turnips. On opening them after death, I always found a 
considerable effusion of bloody water in the cavity of the belly. 
The symptoms usually were, a prominent staring eye, giddiness, 
an inclination to carry the head on one side, and obstinate costive- 
ness. They too frequently died in about twenty-four hours after 
the first attack. I removed them all from their turnips for three 
or four days, and put them on grass, stubble, or seeds, where 
the layer was dry, and administered to every one a draught con- 
taining Epsom salts, tartarized antimony, gentian, and ginger. 
All that have undergone this treatment have escaped. On the 
5th of the present month, I drenched four hundred at Mr. Frid- 
