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two weeks. I found on examination that she was lame in the 
left hind foot, the result of a nail puncture, and she had all the 
characteristic symptoms of traumatic tetanus. I removed the 
shoe and allowed the pus to escape, and applied a boot. She 
was then carefully led to my hospital, about one mile distant. 
Being of a somewhat excitable nature, the jaws were well 
locked on her arrival at the hospital. She was placed in a 
large darkened box, and the wound was well washed with a 
solution of bichloride (i to 500). Then had a poultice applied, 
with the orifice first well smeared with the solid extract of 
belladonna, and she was put under belladonna and calabar bean 
internally. She was left for the night at 11 P. M. At 6 A. M., 
on the 20th, I was hastily called by the barn-man, saying she 
was down and dying. I found her down in the corner, with all 
the symptoms greatly exaggerated and sweating profusely. I 
supposed she was dying in convulsions, and pulled her out and 
helped her on her feet, but she no sooner gained her feet than 
she again threw herself to the floor, and on examination I found 
her to be suffering from indigestion, with impaction of the 
colon, having considerable tympanites. Her jaws were com¬ 
pletely locked by this time, and she was suffering terribly. I 
injected morphine gr. x hypodermically, and gave a solution of 
aloes as well as possible, considering the condition of the jaws. 
She received no relief whatever from the morphine, and I then 
gave chloral §i; also enemas. The tympanites increasing, 
with no alleviation of symptoms, sbe was relieved by punctur¬ 
ing the coecum, which was repeated three times during the day 
and night. No evacuations nor action of the bowels whatever, 
and the animal still suffering considerably, I thought I would 
try the effect of ezerine and pilocarpine, although knowing it to 
be not the best of treatment, the bowels being held by powerful 
contractions. I gave her eserine sulph. gr. i, pilocarpine, gr. 
iss, hypodermically at the time of her suffering excruciating 
pain. The drug did not act as desired, having no effect on the 
bowels, but acted as an anodyne and relived the pain almost 
entirely. This lasted for about two hours, when she again 
