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5th Day.—Either the aloes, digitalis, or camphor, ,was acting 
most powerfully as a diuretic. The sedative effects of the digitalis 
seem a little to subside. Ordered sniall quantities of steeped oats 
in the mashes. 
6th Day.—Spasms slightly returning; the sensibility of the 
cutaneous nerves evidently increasing, noises producing the 
greatest agitation. 
V. S. Libras x.—Digital. 3ij. 
This dose of digitalis, and bleeding, evidently had, in the space 
of six hours, a wonderful effect in lessening the irritability of the 
nervous system. 
7th Day.—Great stupor this morning. He had scarcely moved 
from the spot on which I left him the preceding day. Cold mashes, 
hay, and what water he would drink supplied seven or eight times 
daily, in consequence of his excessive thirst. 
V. S. Libras x. 
8th Day.—Eats with the greatest ease mashes and hay. Pulse 
frequent and somewhat weak. 
9th Day. " 
V. S. Libras vij—Digitalis 3j. 
Pulse frequent and strong before the bleeding. Trismus may 
be said to have left the jaw. Noises and walking about produced 
not the slightest agitation. 
Here the medical treatment finished. I kept him in a fold-yard 
until the twentieth day; after which I ordered him to be turn^ 
out day and night in a contiguous field; and left the rest to nature^ 
I requested that the muscles which yet remained rigid might be 
nibbed every morning with a little oleum commune, which were prin¬ 
cipally those of the hind extremities. The total quantity of blood 
taken, from the first to the ninth day, was twenty-eight quarts. 
Case II. 
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A coach horse, the property of Mr. R. Evans, was attacked witb 
the usual tetanic symptoms, as in the preceding case. 
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Treatment. , ; 
1st Day. 
V.S. Libras X —Cape Aloes 3vfs; Digitalis 3ij; 
Campliorse 3iij ct Vini Rect. 3ij 
Aq. Pur. ad Jxij. ^ Fiat Haustus. 
