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horses had been turned out to grass a short time previous to 
the appearance of the symptoms which denoted the presence 
of stercoral calculi. These calculi were hard and coated with 
mucus. 
Traumatic tetanus six days after the section of 
the tail. —A farmer perceived two of his horses, a mare and a 
gelding five years old, to be affected with stiffness in their gait; 
both were attacked by tetanus, with general trismus, but they 
still possessed the power of taking a little food : this last cir¬ 
cumstance is of great importance, for when the jaws are 
completely closed the case is generally hopeless. Forty-five 
grammes of camphor, combined with fifteen of opium, were 
prescribed every six hours. A profuse perspiration followed the 
administration of this medicine, and a considerable muscular 
relaxation was the consequence, which encouraged the author 
to repeat the medicine in moderated doses, according to the 
state of the patients, taking care at the same time to keep 
up the perspiration by means of warm clothing. Aloetic 
glysters were not neglected. No costiveness followed these 
large doses of opium, which the author attributes to the fact 
of his having dissolved as much as six ounces of the sulphate 
of soda in their drink for sixteen days after the first signs of 
tetanus. The patients were cured. In all cases of traumatic 
tetanus the resection of the tail and cauterization or re¬ 
opening of the wounds are recommended, a rule which the 
author has generally adopted, but he has always found it to 
be followed by an exacerbation of the symptoms which 
carried the patient off. This resection was omitted in the 
preceding cases. Is their cure to be attributed to it, or 
would they have recovered if the resection had been made? 
It is incontestable that if pain is a great element in the 
evolution of traumatic tetanus, the addition of it by a fresh 
operation must aggravate the morbid phenomena. 
Acute nephritis complicated by hematuria.— 
Two cases have occurred, with all the symptoms designated 
under the name of nephritic colic. The gravity of these 
cases demanded an energetic treatment; ten pounds of blood 
were therefore abstracted, bags filled with warm materials 
were applied to the loins, warm clothing, fumigation, severe 
diet, nitrated drink at discretion, emollient glysters, &c., were 
resorted to. Three days after the attack the bleedings were 
repeated to the amount of from seven to nine pounds on 
each patient. The urine was found less charged with blood, 
but deposited more sediment. The subcarbonate of potass 
was now substituted for the nitrate in the same doses, that is, 
from thirty to forty grammes in the twenty-four hours. On 
