246 MR. youatt’s veterinary lectures. 
followed the healing of the wound. Worms have been accused, 
and not always falsely, of being the exciting cause of this disease. 
The teres, and even the ascaris, may produce sufficient disturb¬ 
ance in the intestinal canal to cause, in irritable habits, even 
tetanus itself; but we must acquit the harmless yet dreaded 
bot, who only occupies that habitation which nature designed 
him for, while preparing to assume his perfect form. I have 
seen one case, and there is the record of another, in which 
glossarithrax either accompanied or was the cause of tetanus. 
1 certainly used boldly, and to their full extent, the usual means 
for quieting this fearful nervous erythism; but I added to it, so 
far as the nearly closed state of the jaws would permit me, 
the deep lancing of the vesicles beneath the tongue, and that 
from end to end. They speedily disappeared; the violence of 
the tetanic spasm began soon afterwards to remit, and the 
horse recovered. Distention of the Stomach has been accom¬ 
panied by tetanus. We do not often see a case of staggers, 
of the violent kind, in which there are not occasional spasmodic 
contractions of the muscles, that bear no little resemblance to 
tetanus; and in a few cases the lesser disturbance of the 
nervous system has merged in the greater one. Chronic cough 
and a tuberculated state of the lungs, accompanied by breathing' 
unusually laborious, have had this termination; and the sudden 
absorption of pus, whether from vomicae of the lungs or ab¬ 
scesses of any kind, have thrown a weight on the constitution, 
the effort to get rid of which has produced a state of general 
irritation terminating in tetanus. The irritability of weakness 
has been followed by the same effect. A horse was evidently re¬ 
covering from some disease of long continuance, and of an 
enfeebling nature, and nothing but common care was wanted to 
ensure the return of perfect health : the animal, however, was 
exposed to some circumstances of excitement; he worked too 
early and too much, or he was suffered to gorge himself with 
food, and then all at once tetanus came on, and he was irre¬ 
coverably lost. 
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THE RE-ABSORPTION OF PUS AN IMMEDIATE 
CAUSE OF FARCY. 
By P ROFEssoR Renault, Alfort, 
In a former article I endeavoured to prove, 1st, That pus ex¬ 
isting in certain conditions, either enveloped in tissues, or on the 
surface of a wound, might be absorbed by the veins, and give 
birth to a series of accidents, of which farcy would often be the 
result. 
