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RECORD OF A CASE OF TETANUS. 
By W. Copeman, Esq., Whitchurch. 
Subject, a mare, about fourteen years old, healthy, strong, 
and active, employed regularly in farm work. She had been 
ten years in my possession, and with the exception of being 
lame in one hind leg from a strain received some six or seven 
years ago in shafting a heavy load down hill, was in health 
up to the time of her attack. The mare had been working 
all day as usual, Monday, May 6th. On Tuesday morning 
she was found ill; refused her food, and had apparently some 
swelling or affection of the tongue. She had dunged as usual 
during the night, but had not eaten any hay. Her tail was 
somewhat erect and turned to the near side; her hind 
legs were wide apart and her fore legs straight and stiff; her 
head was stretched forwards; the eyes were dull and ears erect. 
She walked with difficulty. There was some trembling and 
also difficulty of breathing. The true nature of the case not 
being as yet discovered, her back was ordered to be rubbed 
with mustard and vinegar, and injections of soap-and-water 
and an oleagenous drench were prescribed. The injections 
brought away only natural faeces, but the drench could not 
be administered, apparently through the determination of the 
mare to resist it (she was of a very vicious, dangerous, and 
nervous temper). Her throat was well rubbed with a stimu¬ 
lating liniment, and the injections being repeated, she was 
left for the night. She seemed ready for food, but could not 
masticate it, and the breathing was more laborious and diffi¬ 
cult. Pulse about 40. 
Next morning, 6 a.m., she was pronounced hopeless, but the 
nature of her illness not being then discovered, another opinion 
was sought, and the disease was found to be lock-jaw. The 
rectum was examined, the bladder emptied, and an injection 
of four ounces of laudanum administered. The pulse num¬ 
bered 50; breathing very difficult. Considerable restless¬ 
ness was present, the mare turning every now and then 
(about every five minutes) round the loose box, always from 
right to left. These symptoms continued to increase in viru¬ 
lence, accompanied by profuse siveating, and apparently great 
agony, and excessive trembling , on her being disturbed or inter¬ 
fered with. In the afternoon the veterinary surgeon visited 
her again, when, with a view to relieve the intensity of the 
symptoms, she was bled about five or six quarts, and iinme- 
