US 
TETANUS. 
Remarks by the Editor of the Journal. 
I have endeavoured, like MM. Hamont and Pruner, to com¬ 
pare together the two maladies described by these authors, but I 
confess that I have not been able to trace an identity between 
them; and in their conclusions I should have preferred to have seen 
a succinct recapitulation of the original observations which their 
memoir contains, than a fruitless attempt to establish that which 
has no existence. This recapitulation, which is often the only 
part of a memoir that one reads with attention, would then 
have been more useful, 
reminded us, 
1. That the opinion of M. Hurtrel D’Arboval, of the sympa¬ 
thetic influence of intestinal irritation in the production of farcy, 
is not admissible. 
2. That it is deserving of remark that farcy should be so com¬ 
mon in hot countries, and in proportion to the degree of heat, 
since, among us, it much more frequently appears in summer than 
in winter. 
3. That farcy is oftener met with in flat than mountainous 
countries. 
4: That after six months of contact— often immediate—be¬ 
tween sound and farcied horses, farcy has not proved itself to be 
contagious. 
5. That inoculation with the matter of farcy has not produced 
the disease. 
6. That farcy does not seem to be hereditary. 
7. That a diet, partly vegetable and partly animal, may pre¬ 
vent the attack of farcy. 
8. That friction with the sulphuret of potash, in the form of 
ointment, on farcy buttons and tumours, has often cured the 
disease. 
Among other things they would have 
TETANUS. 
[Continued from p. 27, No. 85.J 
By Mr. W. F. Karkeek, V. S., Truro. 
The reader will bring to his recollection the result of the three 
dissections described in the preceding part of this paper: they 
are proofs of the brain and spinal marrow being affected in teta¬ 
nus. Similar observations have been made by many others; there 
cannot, therefore, be a doubt of these organs being diseased in 
every instance. It has been supposed that lesions of the spinal 
