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and viewed with regard to the beautiful and wonderful designs 
of creation as an organic entity, an astonishingly complex living 
machine, endowed with certain attributes, and whose existence is 
dependent upon the performance of various functions which are 
allotted to various organs of suitable material, we must conclude 
that the study of it in health and disease is worthy of the best 
endeavors of our most learned and intelligent citizens, and that 
the profession is worthy of the esteem and regard of all thinking 
men, of whatever occupation or position, and that instead of the 
pursuit of such a noble profession acting as a barrier to his en¬ 
trance into the best society circles, it should of itself be an intro¬ 
duction thereto, as it is at present to all societies of learning and 
schools of science where merit and ability are recognized with¬ 
out regard to social position or influence. 
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TREATMENT OF TETANUS BY INTRA-MUSCULAR INJECTIONS OF 
CHLOROHYDRATE OF COCAINE. 
By A. Villa. 
The subject of the present report was a colt, eighteen months 
old, suffering under a severe attack of lockjaw, which had been 
contracted by exposure to a strong, cold draught, ten days after 
castration. Encouraged by his experience of good results in the 
use of cocaine in the reduction of an inguinal hernia, the author 
decided to try it for the relief of the trismus in the present case, 
and accordingly made two injections of a solution of chlorohy- 
drate of cocaine in each of the masseter muscles, repeating the 
operation in the evening of the same day, the solution being made 
with 1 gramm, 20 cent., in 8 grammes of distilled water. A 
subcutaneous injection of half a gramme of acetate of morphia 
was also made, with a view to corroborate the effect of the 
cocaine. 
The following morning the muscular stiffness was much dimin¬ 
ished, and the animal ate his hay. Two more injections were then 
made, in the neck, along the sterno-maxillaris muscle, with 2 
