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A CASE OF TETANUS, AYITH 
scription paper as intended to be composed, although the pursuer 
and the other promoters of the said demonstration of loyalty and 
attachment to our person, having only that object in view, willingly 
conceded to the defender the privilege of joining in the said public 
dinner party : That the defender had no right or privilege to 
cause any person to be excluded from the said dinner party, and 
lie had no compulsive cause for making to any person any state¬ 
ments whatever, and far less the said injurious statements, in re¬ 
ference to the pursuer, his character or status: That the pursuer 
is entitled to defend his character and status against every asper¬ 
sion cast upon him ; and the defender having causelessly traduced 
and defamed the pursuer’s character and reputation, and injured 
and insulted him, is bound, more especially in the above circum¬ 
stances, to make reparation; and although the pursuer has often 
desired and required the said defender to make reparation, as after 
specified, for the said insult and injury sustained by the pursuer, 
yet he refuses, at least delays so to do : Therefore the said C. D., 
defender, ought and should be decerned and ordained, by decreet 
of the Lords of our Council and Session, to make payment to the 
pursuer of the sum of £500 sterling, in name of damages, and as a 
solatium for the injury sustained by him in his character, reputa¬ 
tion, and feelings as aforesaid, and of the further sum of oflOO, or 
such other sum, more or less, as the said Lords shall modify, as 
the expense of the process to follow hereon, and of extracting the 
decreet to be pronounced therein, conform to the laws and practice 
of Scotland used and observed in the like cases, as is alleged.—• 
Our will is herefore, &c. 
Dated and signeted, Wth October, 1838. 
[This summons having been issued and active proceedings taking 
place, the Defendant was glad to settle the affair by apologizing, 
and paying the expenses, which amounted to £50.—Bravo !] 
A CASE OF TETANUS, WITH RUPTURE OF THE 
PERICARDIUM. 
By Mr. G. M. Marshall, York. 
August \lth, 1838.—I WAS this morning at four o’clock called 
by one of the horse-keepers to a brown horse, nearly thorough¬ 
bred, which he said was bad with the belly-ache. I immediately 
went to him. The case was plain enough: I found all the symp¬ 
toms of tetanus developed. The jaws were completely locked— 
the muscles of the body rigid—the muzzle thrown forward—• 
the membrana nictitans drawn over the eye—the tail elevated 
