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ON TETANUS. 
By the 17th she is feeding very much better, and her legs are 
daily growing finer. The blotches are out very thick about her 
body and thighs on one day; the next, perhaps not one to be 
seen, but as fine all over as possible. 
1 8th .—Cantharides increased to five grains, and steadily at¬ 
tended to, avoiding wet and exposure to cold as much as possible 
during exercise. 
23 d .—She has now taken eight doses, containing three grains 
of cantharides, and six doses containing five grains. She is 
become very lively; feeds well; her legs quite fine, and altogether 
very much improved and grown in flesh, but the nasal appear¬ 
ances are the same, and the anasarcous blotches appear and 
disappear as before described: medicine discontinued to the 28th. 
I now gave three grains and a half of cantharides ; and again on 
the 29th and on the 30th commenced with seven grain doses of 
cantharides ; the quantity of gentian and ginger as before. She 
continues feeding very well, and is lively; improves in condition. 
May 6th .—Medicine continued ; to-day, a little more oedema- 
tous about the nose and chest, and a good deal blotched, but 
feeds well and is lively. 
10th .—Discontinue the medicine ; goes on well. 
14th .—Quite free from blotches. Nasal membrane become 
much more healthy, fast losing its discolouration, and gaining the 
pinky tint. Give cantharides in four grain doses, for six days. 
2 5th .—Nasal membrane free from the red spots; is of a 
healthy appearance; feeds very well; is exceedingly lively and 
playful; and, on the 30th, I sent her home quite well. I 
saw this mare, a fortnight ago, quite well and in beautiful 
condition. 
ON TETANUS. 
By Mr. James Turner. 
[A Letter addressed by him to Mr. Youatt.] 
Dear Sir, 
Although wholly unsupported, except by yourself, in the 
remarks I ventured last evening in the debate on Mr. Henderson’s 
very interesting paper on tetanus, I am induced to resume the 
subject, from some observations which followed of your’s striking 
me most forcibly as confirmatory of the position I had taken up 
regarding the nature of the disease. 
Perceiving that the meeting, though small, comprised a knot of 
respectable practitioners, and that we disagreed not only as to the 
nature of this formidable and too often fatal malady, but that the 
