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ON INDIAN HEMP, 
ASA REMEDY IN TETANUS AND PARALYSIS, AND AN ANO¬ 
DYNE-TREATMENT OE LAMINITIS — INJURIES FROM 
CASTING OF HORSES—STRANGULATED SCROTAL HERNIA 
— BURSAUTTEE — PARALYSIS OF THE PENIS — CASE OF 
IMPACTED (ESOPHAGUS — EPISTAXIS — DRAINAGE OF 
CAVALRY STABLES—EPIZOOTIC TYPHUS FEVER—CANKER 
—CATTLE DISEASES. 
By J. R. Hoey, M.R.C.V.S., 
V.S. Her Majesty’s 3rd Brigade Horse Artillery, India. 
To the Editors of ‘ The Veterinarian * 
D ear Sirs, —Seeing that twenty years have elapsed since 
I made any communications to you for publication, I think I 
may with safety expect to escape being charged with “ ca- 
coethes scribendi.” 
Being now absent on leave for a short period, I am 
compelled to recite the few cases now given from memory, 
having no register by me for reference as to dates, &c. How¬ 
ever, I give them in the “ rough,” in the hope that they may 
prove useful as guides in some measure, and that they may 
prove acceptable for publication in The Veterinarian . Of 
course, there are some cases here described that are occasion¬ 
ally occurring in the practice of all veterinary surgeons in 
India and elsewhere, and consequently nothing novel in some 
of them ; but others are not so, and these at least may prove 
beneficial to the profession at large, in eliciting remarks from 
them for the general good. The position I am placed in must 
necessarily confine me to cursory observations, which, though 
unavoidable, is to be regretted. 
It has long been a desideratum, that, if not a specific, at 
least some valuable therapeutic could be relied on in that 
fearful disease tetanus, and I am not aware that any veterinary 
surgeon has heretofore w 7 ritten on the subject of hemp (cannabis 
Indica) as a cure for tetanus. In this country the native 
name for hemp is “ Bhung.” Its properties as a powerful 
narcotic all are acquainted with, and I now propose it as the 
most reliable agent, if not specific, in tetanus, to the expulsion 
of opium in the treatment of that fearful and formidable 
disease. 
The case I am about to relate. Colonel Horsmonden 
Baldwin, late of the Bengal Horse Artillery, now in England, 
