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MR. YOUATTS VETERINARY LECTURES. 
The rupture of the diaphragm had evidently taken place at 
the moment of the blow. The extreme difficulty of respiration 
proved this; but a portion of intestine insinuating itself into the 
orifice, the passage was closed, and the breathing became as 
quiet as before. Colicky pains, however, attended the threatened 
or incipient strangulation of the intestine; but the animal lived 
five weeks, and was cheerful and playful a few days before his 
death. 
May it be connected with Broken Wind ?—Then it being as¬ 
certained that a lesion of the diaphragm may exist for a consi¬ 
derable time, and not be characterized by any peculiarly labori¬ 
ous respiration, another question arises, whether it may not occa¬ 
sionally exist as a cause of broken w T ind ; for it is a singular fact, 
that, in many of the cases of ruptured diaphragm that are on re¬ 
cord, the horse w r as broken-winded. Was broken wind the result 
of the rupture, or the rupture the consequence of the increased 
difficulty in expelling the air arising from broken wind ? One 
thing, however, should not be forgotten, that rupture of the dia¬ 
phragm is in all probability much oftener induced by the strug¬ 
gles of death, than previously existing. 
This is a difficult as well as a new subject, and we must await 
the result of many a careful observation, ere we fully make up 
our minds on it. 
Rupture of the diaphragm is the occasional consequence of 
hoove in the ox. 
A CASE OF TETANUS. 
By Mr. W. Laing, of Upper Banchery , N. B. 
Having been requested to examine a farm horse, belonging 
to Colonel Duff, which was seized with locked jaw on the 24th 
of November last, I found, upon my arrival, that he had been 
bled, and that his head and mouth had been bathed with vine¬ 
gar ; treatment which could not do harm, but which would not 
arrest the progress of such a disease. 
The symptoms left no doubt with regard to the nature of the 
disease. The muscles of the body were very much contracted, 
especially those of the head and neck; the nose protruding for¬ 
wards, and the eyes strained upwards. The nostrils were much 
distended, and the breathing was difficult. The bowels were 
costive, and the body covered with a cold perspiration. 
The mode of treatment which I adopted was as follow’s:— 
Twelve drachms Barbadoes aloes and four drachms of opium were 
