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He was put into a box some distance from the other horses, had ten 
drops of the acid three times a day, and was all right again in about 
a month. This case was idiopathic, and due, in my opinion, to ex¬ 
posure in the field in the month of January last, when it was very 
cold. My tenth and last case was an old, well-bred brood mare, 
the property of William Joynson, Esq., of Sale ; it also occurred in 
the month of January last, was idiopathic, and due to exposure and 
poverty. The treatment in this instance was not so successful; she 
was under its influence for about a fortnight, and was certainly no 
better, but by no means much worse, when the owner, fancying she 
was not in foal, and not having much hope of recovery held out by 
me, thought it best to have her destroyed. In addition to these 
cases I may mention that, while my son was attending the Veterinary 
College at Alfort, in France, a case of idiopathic tetanus was under 
treatment there, and it having got to the ears of Professor Bouley 
that I had been unusually successful in the treatment of this disease, 
he sent for my son and gave him charge of the case. He carried 
the key of the box in his pocket, and only allowed it to be entered 
twice a day by the groom; and the acid was given as before de¬ 
scribed, and the horse cured in a month, to the surprise of the 
authorities at Alfort. As the cases begin to improve, I may mention 
that I feed liberally on boiled barley, and give plenty of grass in 
summer, and carrots in winter. I was taught to give lots of physic 
in this disease; and indeed most veterinary authorities of the present 
day set great weight on its usefulness ; still, to me it has never been 
of the slightest service. I have often had the bowels well opened 
and purged without a shadow of relief to the poor patient; on the 
contrary, his sufferings have been increased by the irritating effect 
of the aloes on the nervous coat of the bowels. In my humble 
opinion the true principles by which to treat this disease are, to remove 
the patient as far as possible from all causes of excitement, let not 
even the light shine on him ; give him a sedative such as I have 
used, or a better if it can be found; but it must be easily adminis¬ 
tered, or it will do more harm than good, and you will, I am con¬ 
vinced, meet with as large an amount of success and gratification as 
fell to my late friend Mr. Poet, or myself. 
Such, Mr. President and Gentlemen, are the few remarks I pro¬ 
mised to make on my treatment of this formidable and most fatal 
malady, and I trust you will permit me to add that I have neces¬ 
sarily refrained from details which, while of no great practical 
utility, would but have embarrassed my paper and entrenched upon 
the brief space of time allotted for interesting discussion. I have, 
every reason to be grateful for the attention and kind consideration 
with which you have received these remarks, and for which I 
beg to thank you most sincerely. 
