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MR. YOUATT’s veterinary LECTURES. 
ashamed to say, one of the best accounts we have of tetanus in 
the horse, and a very well reported case of it. I suspect, how¬ 
ever, that he owed much of this to our excellent and lamented 
friend Castley, who was veterinary surgeon to the regiment. He 
says {Med, and Phys. Journal, Sept. 1825), A horse in leaping 
over a wall tore off a wart from the centre of the abdomen, and 
the stifle of the near-hind leg was bruised. Eighteen days after 
the accident, tetanus appeared. Six quarts of blood were taken 
at two bleedings ; the spine, and the muscles of the throat and 
jaws and left stifle were blistered ; a purgative medicine was in 
vain tried to be administered, and two large purgative enemata 
were thrown up, which were immediately rejected. On the fol¬ 
lowing day, there being little amendment, the cold affusion 
was tried ; but this aggravated all the symptoms, and rendered 
the paroxysms more intense and constant. On the following 
day, it was tried in vain to administer a strong solution of 
opium, but strong purgative enemata were thrown up; half aii 
ounce of crude opium was placed in the rectum as a suppository, 
and the animal turned out in the open air on the 1st of May, 
the night being dark, wet, and cold. The veterinary surgeon 
now considering the case hopeless, Mr. Egan requested permis¬ 
sion to try the effect of tobacco clysters. He infused one ounce 
of leaf tobacco in a quart of boiling water, and administered it as 
an injection. It produced a discharge of dark fluid faeces } and 
he fancied that the next tetanic symptom was not so acute as 
the preceding. On the following day he infused two ounces of 
tobacco in two quarts of water, and used it as an enema. The 
next paroxysm was shortened by half an hour, and from this 
time the horse continued to amend ; but, the enema being omit¬ 
ted for two days, all the symptoms returned. The tobacco was 
again resorted to, and thrown up two or three times every day 
until the 30th of May, when the horse was pronounced to be 
perfectly cured. 
Food. —What! a horse with locked jaw, shall we be solicitous 
about his food ? Yes; for he is as hungry as when in health; 
and if you place within his reach a pail of good gruel, he will 
nuzzle in it, and contrive to drink some of it too ; and particu¬ 
larly if you put a thoroughly wet mash before him in a pail (the 
manger is hardly deep enough), he will bury his nose in it, and 
contrive to extract no small portion of the fluid. I have already 
hinted that, by means of a little horn, or bottle with a very 
narrow neck, it will often be possible to get down a cer¬ 
tain quantity of gruel. The flexible pipe which accompanies 
Reed’s Patent Pump will render this of easier accomplishments 
Indeed, there is now no difficulty about the matter; and, next to 
the power we have obtained of supporting the strength of the 
