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till the twelfth day. On the third day there was.no change, 
pulse and temperature normal, respirations io, stiffness more 
marked in general, food and water refused. On the fourth day 
much the same, could see no change, neither one way nor 
another. From the fifth to the tenth day he seemed to be at a 
standstill, as it were, resting very easy under the circumstances, 
still everything refused. From the eleventh day till the four¬ 
teenth the pulse became weaker and irregular, though at times 
becoming steadier, respirations quickened. During this time he 
could move his lips very freely, the incisors being opened fully 
an inch wide. From the fifteenth to the twentieth he began to 
grow weaker, bracing himself more firmly on the ground, the 
legs apart and extended, the levators humeri stood out from 
their fellows like bars of iron, opisthotonos becoming worse, the 
eyes more fixed in their orbits, giving the face a haggard and 
worn expression. The animal now looked more like a wooden 
horse with the exception of his breathing. On the sixteenth 
day the owner by chance tried him with water and, to his sur¬ 
prise, he began to show indications of drinking, but so slow was 
he that one could scarcely see any change in the bucket that he 
drank from. After he had made several attempts he began to 
improve a little, so as to drink about two quarts at one time, 
taking about ten minutes to get this down. At times the power 
of deglutition seemed to be arrested as he would swallow small 
quantities apparently all right, then all of a sudden it would 
seem impossible for him to do so, though craving it. I then be¬ 
gan to give him § i doses of sodae hyposulphite, three times a 
day, in his water. This way of drinking was kept up till the 
afternoon of the twentieth day, when he refused to notice water. 
From the sixteenth up to the twentieth day, he stood game on 
his feet, bracing himself outstretched and whatever moving he 
did, which was very little, the feet were scarcely lifted up off 
the ground. It looked like a pity to keep an animal in this con¬ 
dition, but after his living out two weeks I was determined to 
try and keep life in as long as I could, even if my prognosis was 
unfavorable. On the afternoon of the twentieth day I went out 
as usual; found him worse than in the morning; breathing 
labored, pulse imperceptible, eyes sunken, stiff as a board; died 
last evening about 8:30. 
This case, I think, is one of the exceptions, as far as duration 
is concerned, as I have never had the privilege of reading about 
a case like this, wherein an animal lived as long as he did, suf¬ 
fering from tetanus, without food or water. In my experience 
