HYPOSULPHITE OF SODA IN TETANUS. 
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being received into the animal’s system, finds its way through 
the blood to the spinal centres, for which it has a special affin- 
ity, there distributing by mal-nutrition its normal dynamic ac¬ 
tion.” I .began to see what I had long suspected, that the dis¬ 
ease was not caused by pain, as we had been taught heretofore, 
and that it could not be cured by antispasmodics and sedatives, 
and that counter-irritants or any other agent that caused the 
slightest pain was harmful. I then became satisfied the disease 
was caused by a germ and began to look about me for some 
germicide or bacteriacide which could be conveniently adminis¬ 
tered without exciting the patient. This I found in hyposul¬ 
phite of soda. I also found that the impure blood had a very 
bad effect on the nervous system. Therefore, while we are 
purging the blood of the bacteria we must also look after some 
nerve sedative to control the nervous system, which we readily 
find in bromide of potassium. Now, let us see what we have 
been able to do by this line of treatment. I have 34 cases on 
record treated with the above medicinal agents ; 23 of these 
patients made a perfect recovery and are living and performing 
their usual labor. (This includes all cases treated with these 
remedies.) It would occupy too much of your valuable space to 
describe all these cases, but I will favor you with the particulars 
of one or two. Therefore, I will proceed to give the modus 
opcrandi. 
On July 30, 1893, I was called to see a bay filly, four years 
old, well-bred and belonging to a Mr. H., living some eight 
miles from my office. O11 arriving at his place of residence 
found the patient very stiff, with nose protruding, tail slightly 
raised, membrana nictitans covering a portion of the eye, loco¬ 
motion considerably impaired, walking almost without bending 
the joints, temperature slightly elevated, pulse normal (except¬ 
ing when the paroxysms came on, which was only when some¬ 
thing frightened her). Diagnosed tetanus and called for his¬ 
tory. Was told the animal was perfectly well until two or three 
days before, when a slight stiffness was noticed in posterior ex¬ 
tremities, which gradually increased until the present time. 
