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THE LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
DISCUSSION ON MR. LAWSON’S PAPER ON “TETANUS.” 
(Contin ueclfrom p. 739 .) 
In our last number we inserted a paper on “ Tetanus,” read by Mr. 
Lawson, at a meeting of the Lancashire "Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation, on the 14th of September. As the subject is an important 
one, we now furnish our readers with “the official report” of the 
discussion which followed the reading of the paper. 
The President (T. Greaves, Esq.), in inviting discussion, remarked 
that, when in London in May last, at the annual general meeting, 
being in the company of several distinguished members of the pro¬ 
fession, the conversation incidentally turned upon tetanus, when 
one of the gentlemen stated that he had cured the last five cases 
which came under his care, and that his brother had been even 
more successful than he had. Ilis plan was to give no medicine 
whatever , and never to bleed, blister, or purge, or give injections. 
His great reliance was on perfect quietude, darkness, and time. He 
(Mr. Greaves) said to himself, we must have this man at our meet¬ 
ing in Manchester, when Mr. Lawson’s paper on tetanus comes on, 
and it gave him the greatest pleasure to inform the members of the 
association that that gentleman had in the kindest manner possible 
complied with his invitation, and had come all the way from Bath 
on purpose to be present with them this evening. By way of com¬ 
mencing the discussion, he would therefore call upon the gentleman 
to whom he had alluded—Mr. Broad, of Bath—to open the discus¬ 
sion. 
Mr. Bvoad , of Bath, said he had treated six cases. One was 
idiopathic, and the patient died. The remaining five belonged 
(o the traumatic class. The first of them was a hunter, that 
had received an injury to his heel. It was a very severe case. 
The patient was put into a quiet loose box, and, as he could not 
swallow anything w r orth mentioning, no medicine was administered. 
It proved to be a very good case. The next patient was a brewer’s 
dray-horse, which had injured one of his feet with a nail. The 
disease appeared in a very severe form after the mishap. He had 
the animal in his own stables, and it eventually recovered. The 
next case was a butcher’s horse, that had run away and knocked 
itself about so much that tetanus ensued. He had the animal put 
into a loose box, and allowed no one to see him until his recovery. 
The next case was a colt, whose mother had kicked it. This patient 
was brought in just as the wound healed, and had been turned 
out again when tetanus set in. It was a very severe case, but after 
removing the animal from one box to another, which was quieter, 
and getting it up when it fell, he succeeded in bringing it round. 
The next case was the result of exposure to the weather. Sedatives 
