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M. J. JONES. 
To give regular exercise, and to avoid severe usage on hard 
roads, and frequent careful shoeing. 
HYPOSULPHITE OF SODA IN TETANUS. 
By M. J. Jones, V.S., Cuba, Ohio. 
Having followed the profession for a livelihood for more 
than a score of years, I have concluded to give you my experi¬ 
ence in the treatment of that too-often fatal disease, tetanus. 
In doing so I cannot help feeling my inability to handle the 
subject in a masterly way. But, nevertheless, experience is ex¬ 
perience, and I have not only had experience, but have assidu¬ 
ously perused every particle of literature that I could possibly 
obtain on the subject of veterinary medicine and surgery. 
Therefore, I feel that I might be able to entertain your readers 
for a short time. 
After carefully studying White, May hew, Dadd, Percival, 
Youatt, and other works of their day, I commenced treating 
tetanus by venesection and catharsis, counter-irritants along the 
spine, followed by powerful antispasmodics and sedatives. 
Consequently, I had to bear the chagrin of seeing a large propor¬ 
tion of my patients go to the bone-yard. I continued this course 
of treatment for several years, with no other consolation than 
the queries arising in my own mind : u Who knows more about 
the treatment, and who can find out sooner than I can?” But 
after a series of failures, followed by disappointment and dis¬ 
gust, the writings of Robertson, Williams, Dun, Daw, Diautard, 
Greene’s “ Pathology and Morbid Anatomy,” Pasteur, Koch, 
and other modern writers came to my notice, and were devoured 
with avidity. Soon light dawned upon the horizon, and suc¬ 
cess followed my efforts. I was glad to know that with the aid 
of modern science I could in a large proportion of tetanic cases 
relieve the poor dumb animal from his sufferings and bring 
about a favorable termination. After reading Prof. Robertson 
on the subject where he says : u On this hypothesis the true 
cause of tetanus is regarded as some morbific agent which, 
