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runs its course most speedily. The animal is often dead within 
twelve hours after the first attack, and, if he lingers on beyond 
six-and-thirty hours, it may be regarded as a pledge of his ulti¬ 
mate recovery. 
Treatment ,—The indications of cure and the means of accom¬ 
plishing it are the same. A bleeding from the jugular, or from 
the eye vein, should be immediately effected ; and, before 
the jaw becomes thoroughly fixed, one or more doses of the 
castor oil mixture,” already frequently recommended, should 
be given ; it combines the purgative and the anodyne, which 
such a case requires. Some administer two drachms of aloes, or 
three or four drachms of Epsom salts; and, after that, and as long 
as the spasm continues, they give repeated doses of that well known 
compound, the calves’ cordial. The object sought to be accom¬ 
plished is the same; the opium should at least speedily follow 
the purgative. I would, however, rather say, that they should 
be combined; and in the castor oil, syrup of buckthorn, and syrup 
of white poppies, there is a combination of purgatives and an 
anodyne well calculated to produce the desired effect. 
Tetanus is a far more manageable disease in the sheep 
than in the horse or ox. Thousands die, because nothing is 
done;—but a bleeding being effected—the bowelshaving been 
opened—the lamb having been put into a warm bath—and then 
being tolerably dried and wrapped in blankets, and placed in a 
basket in a warm place or before the fire, and a little gruel, 
mingled with ginger and ale, or even the housewife’s gin, being 
administered, a cure will often be effected. 
TETANUS IN HOGS. 
Many a young pig dies tetanic seven or eight days after cas¬ 
tration, and especially if it has been too well fed in the mean 
time. It is not an unfrequent malady among pigs that are driven 
to a distant market; and especially if, heated by travelling, or by 
exposure to the sun, they are suffered to roll themselves in a 
brook or ditch, which they will frequently attempt to do. 
TETANUS IN DOGS. 
Why this useful animal should be so little subject to tetanus 
I am unable to explain. Sportsmen say that it sometimes attacks 
the dog, when, heated in the chase, he plunges into the river after 
the stag. Tetanus is termed by the French mal-de-cerf \ from 
stags being supposed to be attacked in a similar way from the 
same cause. In the course of three-and-twenty years’ practice on 
the animal, I have seen but two cases of it. Tlie first arose 
from a wound in the foot: the cause of the second 1 could not 
learn. They both terminated fatally. 
