THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. VllI, No. 91.] JULY 1835. [New Series, No. 31 . 
MR. YOUATT’S VETERINARY LECTURES, 
DELIVERED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 
LECTURE XLVIII (continued). 
The Treatment of Tetanus—Local Applications, — Blistering .— 
Cold .— Opiate Frictions. — Food.—Attention to the Focus or 
Origin of the Disease.—Tetanus in Cattle — Sheep — Hogs — 
Dogs. 
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Treatment continued. —WHAT shall I add to the opium ? Un¬ 
less actual purging was going on I should continue the exhibition 
of the aloes. If I depend on the opium to allay this nervous 
excitation, I must take into the account, that it will allay irrita¬ 
bility, and diminish even natural action every where, and in the 
intestinal canal among the rest; and, therefore, as not only the 
aid of the auxiliary muscles is lost, but they are now obstacles to 
the usual peristaltic motion of the bowels, and the opium will 
lessen even this, every ball must contain more than sufficient 
aloes to counterbalance these tendencies to constipation. I have 
given four and five drachms of aloes for many a successive 
day, not only without injurious effect, but with decided benefit; 
and the clysters administered during the day contained, at least, 
21133 of Epsom salts. Is any thing else to be added? Why, 
Mr. Wilkinson’s ball contained camphor; and common consent 
seems to have determined that the ball for tetanus should contain 
camphor ; I therefore usually give it. Not that I am satisfied about 
the effect of camphor on the horse: in great doses I have seen 
it do harm; in moderate doses, like the camphor julep of the 
human practitioner, it does neither good nor harm ; and, there¬ 
fore, I retain it, lest, in such a disease, and where the fatal 
cases far exceed in number those that are saved, I should incur 
after-reproach. The assafoetida, do I retain that? I should be 
ashamed of myself if 1 did. Several perfectly satisfactory ex¬ 
periments have assigned to it the same place which thq old 
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