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REPORTS OF CASES. 
I have no longer any doubt, and from its composition this is 
nothing more than we might expect. The owner of the quarry 
compensated the farmer for his loss, and paid my bill as well. 
He also put a good, substantial fence around his quarry. 
A CASE OF TETANUS. 
B}^ Wm. Rushwokth, M.D.C., Monte Yiste, Col. 
The patient was a nine-year-old black coach stallion. I was 
called by the owner to see the same ; he said he thought his 
horse was foundered. Found the animal standing in his stall, 
with all the symptoms of a case of tetanus, the head extended 
on the neck, the membrana nictitans passing over the eye on 
the slightest upward motion of the head, and the animal 
moved stiff and appeared uneasy. As far as the history 
of the case was concerned, I found by questioning the owner 
that some three weeks previous, the right fore-foot had been 
severely pricked in shoeing. Diagnosed the case as tetanus, 
brought on from punctured wound in the foot; prescribed 
an alcetic purge, and ordered the foot to be poulticed with 
linseed, the poultice to be made asceptic; also ordered the 
stall to be darkened and patient to be kept as quiet as 
possible. Next day found all the symptoms increased 
in severity, trismus partial, opisthotonos well marked. On 
making an examination of the foot, I found firmly imbedded 
in the cleft of the frog a wire nail at least three inches 
long ; this was evidently the cause of the disease, and not 
the nail prick. I now prescribed fl. ex. gelsemium and pot. 
bromide aa. § ss., to be given in Oss. of milk, as an enema, 
three times a day. On the third day the symptoms appeared 
ameliorated, and continued the gelsemium and bromide 
treatment. On the fourth day trismus was complete, the 
least noise being sufficient to aggravatethe muscular spasms to 
such an extent as to almost throw the animal down : the 
temperature, which up to this time had been only slightly 
elevated above normal, now commenced to rise, running up 
to 103 F.; peristaltic motion had ceased ; the urine was 
