HYPOSULPHITE OF SODA IN TETANUS. 
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bromide when there was any nervousness noticed more than 
usually. On the last of second or first of the third week noticed 
very great tension of the epidermis, so much so that it was al¬ 
most impossible to notice any motion of the abdominal walls in 
respiration ; slight tumefaction of superficial lymphatics, with 
very great irritability of animal when the hand was placed on 
the epidermis. Continued hyposulphite in 5 ss doses, increased 
diet by adding more oats and a pint of middlings or shorts. 
On calling again in a few days found swelling of lymphatics 
nearly gone, with yellow, gummy, aqueous substance oozing 
from the surface ; bowels relaxed, faeces taking on a normal ap¬ 
pearance, appetite good, locomotion improving, coat of hair slip¬ 
ping, being replaced by a fine glossy coat; still considerable ir¬ 
ritability, so much so that the animal had to be watched 
continually to keep her from injuring you while in the stable. 
On calling again found the patient liked to be rubbed on the 
neck and shoulders, but very irritable on the posterior extremi¬ 
ties. Animal continued to improve from day to day until she 
enjoyed two or three good rubbings with comb and brush each 
day. She made a perfect recovery in forty days from time of 
attack, standing obstinately on her feet for over thirty days 
and coming out without a scar or blemish, with a fine coat of 
hair and apparently weighing at least ioo lbs. more than when 
attacked. 
Now, this is almost an exact description of all the cases 
treated with this medicine. But, with the indulgence of the 
editor, I will describe one more case, in which there was no 
bromide used (excepting one dose). 
On Sept, nth, 1895, was called to see a sorrel draft filly, 
two years old. When I arrived the owner told me that the ani¬ 
mal was stone blind, that she had fallen over the fence into the 
road and tried to follow his mother-in-law and two children, 
who had started to town in a road-cart, but that she could not 
see and had fallen over the occupants of the cart, causing slight 
injury to the woman and .children and demolishing the car-t. I 
found her in a very excitable condition, nose protruding, mem- 
