TETANUS v. WOUHALI. 
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England. Being six years old now, and consequently shut out of 
the good things, he was offered to the French Government as a 
stallion, but was objected to because he is a chestnut, and has not 
a handsome head. 
Nimrod. 
P.S. — Since the above was written, I have seen the death of 
Mr. Coleman in the Times paper. I trust I have said nothing 
prejudicial to the memory of a highly talented and worthy gentle- 
man, as he has always been represented to me ; but as one who, in 
his zeal, may have carried some points beyond the test of expe- 
rience. 
TETANUS v. WOURALI. 
Most of our readers are aware that some very interesting expe- 
riments have lately been made with the wourali poison. The 
medical men of Nottingham, much to their credit, have taken the 
lead. 
The wourali poison, according to Mr. Waterton, is made by the 
Macoashe Indians from a vine called wourali, several unknown ve- 
getables, two species of ants, Indian pepper, and the pounded fangs 
of two species of venemous snakes. These are all boiled together 
until they are reduced to the form of an extract. An ox that was 
wounded by an arrow dipped in this poison died in twenty-five 
minutes. 
Mr. Morton, in his valuable essay on “ The Agency and Method 
of detecting the more energetic Poisons,” gives a short account 
of it, and in the course of the debate he read to the Association 
a record of the experiments of Professor Sewell on the power of 
the wourali poison in cases of tetanus. The subjects of the expe- 
riments were a horse and an ass. They both were labouring under 
tetanus, and the ass exhibited it in its severest form. They were 
both destroyed by the poison. In ten minutes after apparent death 
was produced artificial respiration was commenced, and kept up 
about four hours, when reanimation took place. The horse got up; 
he appeared to be perfectly recovered, and eagerly partook of corn 
and hay. It would appear that he was permitted to take too much 
of these substances, for over-distention of the stomach took place, 
and he died on the following day, without the slightest recurrence 
of the tetanic symptoms. 
The ass, probably exhausted by the previous violence of the 
disease, although reanimation took place in him, yet never reco- 
vered so far as to be able to rise, and he died twenty-seven hours 
after the exhibition of the poison, but without the return of a single 
