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TWO SUCCESSFUL CASES OF TETANUS. 
By Mr. W. Henderson, Edinburgh. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, 
Being a constant reader of “ The Veterinarian,” and interested 
in the welfare and advancement of veterinary science, 1 now send 
you two cases of tetanus, successfully treated. Should you think 
them worth inserting, please give them a place in your most use¬ 
ful work, and oblige, your’s, &c. 
W. Henderson, V. S. 
Edinburgh , 40, llose Street , 
13 th Eeb. 1829. 
CASE I.—IDIOPATHIC CASE OF TETANUS. 
ON the 7th November 1821, Mr. Scott, fanner, Lanneston, sent 
one of his horses to the forge. The servant who brought him stated 
that he thought him in a bad way, as he had never had such 
difficulty in getting a horse along the road, it having taken him 
nearly three hours to bring the horse from Lanneston, a distance 
of about three miles. 
When I saw the horse, I found him labouring under all the 
symptoms of tetanus; his head more elevated than usual, ears 
erect, and pointed forward, membrana nictitans protruding in 
part over the eye, nose thrown out, nostrils dilated, his tail a 
little elevated, he straddled in his gait, and all the symptoms 
combined gave the disease a complete confirmed appearance. 
I understood from the servant, that the horse had been stand¬ 
ing in a cold stable, with an insufficient roof, through which the 
rain had fallen on him, and which appeared to me to be a likely 
cause of the complaint, he being in low condition, and probably 
labouring under some derangement of the digestive organs, which 
might have predisposed him to become affected. 
From the contracted state of the jaws, and general rigid state 
of his muscular system, his medicine could not be given in a solid 
form : 1 therefore made up a draught composed of 3vii aloes barb, 
and mixed it with a bottle of linseed oil, which I managed to ad¬ 
minister with a syringe, introducing its point between the grinders 
and dieek, which 1 have found, in the course of my practice, to be 
the best way of giving fluids to horses labouring under this disease. 
I then glystered him, and gave directions to the servant to take 
him home, and let him be well clothed, bran-water offered to him 
frequently, and to be kept as quiet as possible. 
