A CASE OF TETANUS. 
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made into two balls, and administered with great difficulty by 
means of a cane. On the next day, a bottle of linseed oil was 
given ; and, on the day following, his belly appeared much 
swollen: a rowel was introduced, which discharged very copi¬ 
ously. 
On the next day, a ball, composed of three drachms of opium 
and an equal quantity of camphor, was administered, together 
with another bottle of linseed oil. The bowels were now for the 
first time opened. 
A few days afterwards he had a drench composed of the follow¬ 
ing ingredients, viz., powdered opium two drachms, camphor two 
drachms, spirit of hartshorn one ounce, spirit of turpentine one 
ounce, and strong ale one pint. His loins were kept covered 
with a sheep’sjskin taken warm from the animal’s back. The 
skin which was first applied became shrivelled and dried in the 
course of three days; but the second skin remained moist and 
pliable. These applications produced a favourable change in 
the disease, insomuch that, upon the following morning, he was 
found lying down, and he rose without assistance. 
A short time afterwards I gave him another ball, composed of 
three drachms of opium and an equal quantity of camphor, which 
was repeated in the course of a few days : a second rowel was 
introduced for the purpose of abating the swelling, which had 
again made its appearance. 
It may be unnecessary to add, that, during the continuance of 
the disease, his food consisted chiefly of boiled barley, or malt 
mixed with linseed. In the first stage of the disease his jaws 
were so much closed that he could with difficulty merely suck up 
his food ; and had it not been that his appetite remained keen, 
which is usually the case in locked jaw, his provender would 
have remained untouched. In the latter stage of the disease he 
was walked out a little every day. 
On the 30th of December, the animal was so far recovered as 
to be considered fit for light work. 
AMPUTATION OF THE PENIS OF THE HORSE. 
By Mr. William Young, V.S., Muirliead, of Earnkirk, N. B, 
Being called on the 6th of August last to a horse, the pro¬ 
perty of Mr. James Tennant, farmer, of Croftfoot, in the parish 
of Cadder, I found him with a large cancerous tumour on the 
glans penis, which prevented him from retracting the yard within 
the sheath. It had the appearance ot a corroded surface, with 
