400 
CURE FOR LOCK-JAW. 
swallowed were transformed into flat worms, of which eleven 
presented mature segments. Some of the latter were still 
connected ; the others were detached, and moved towards 
the lower part of the canal. There were eight other worms, 
which had not ripened as yet. All these parasites were com¬ 
paratively small, the longest not reaching beyond five feet.— 
The Lancet. 
DEATH OF THE ALPACAS IN PARIS. 
The Society of Acclimation of Paris having recently lost 
the whole of their alpacas and llamas by an epizootic disease, 
they have instituted measures to replace them by sending 
out a naturalist to South America to collect another pack, 
and also a flock of merinoes. 
CURE FOR LOCK-JAW. 
A friend of mine, a gentleman of high standing in the 
county, on whose veracity I can depend (says a writer in the 
Field newspaper), related to me a few days ago an extraordi¬ 
nary instance of a valuable mare of his recovering from con¬ 
firmed tetanus, by having recourse to means I never heard of 
being adopted before. The relating of the facts may perhaps 
be not uninteresting to some of your readers. The mare had 
been docked. A few days after the operation was performed, 
symptoms of lock-jaw presented themselves. The best advice 
was immediately obtained, but every remedy used proved un¬ 
availing, and death appeared inevitable. An idea suggested 
itself to the lady of the house (who, I believe, is famed for 
the kind and skilful way in which she dispenses medicines, 
especially to the poor of the surrounding neighbourhood) 
that a sudden severe shock might produce the effect of relax¬ 
ing the nerves and muscles, now strung to the highest pitch 
in the poor suffering brute. A gun was loaded; the groom 
walked quietly to the mare’s head, and discharged it close to 
her ear. The mare reared suddenly up, broke her halter, and 
fell backwards; got up, shook herself, at once commenced 
eating, perfectly recovered, is now alive, and has bred two or 
three fine foals since. 
[It is not uncommon for these sudden shocks given to the 
nervous system to be attended with this effect. In one 
instance, related to us, a horse, affected with tetanus, was led 
out to be destroyed, when the blow of the pole-axe not being 
given sufficiently strong to destroy life, the result was a com¬ 
plete relaxation of the general muscular contraction, and the 
animal ultimately recovered.] 
