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were given, and the animal recovered. He (Mr. Broad) liad pre¬ 
viously been in the habit of trying belladonna, and had recovered 
several patients with it. He gave two or three drachms between 
the lips, but he had been induced to discontinue the use of the drug. 
When chloroform first came into use he gave trial to it, but, instead 
of improving the patient, it brought on the symptoms again, and 
entirely upset the case. In another case he had some difficulty in 
keeping the patient quiet by the belladonna treatment; he gave 
two drachms of aloes, which revived the animal so much that he 
was left alone, and sometimes he seemed as if he would recover. 
He began purging, but got down, and knocked himself about so 
much that he had him destroyed. He also adopted the belladonna 
treatment some years ago in another case, where a farrier was in 
attendance. A dose of physic was administered, superpurgation 
ensued, and the patient dropped down and died. With regard to 
quietude in the treatment of patients for such a disease as tetanus, 
he thought it was highly essential. No person should be allowed 
to see them. 
Mr. Hunt , of Birmingham, corroborated much of what Mr. 
Lawson had stated in his paper. This destructive disease had baffled 
many of their predecessors, who had resorted to all kinds of treat¬ 
ment. At any rate, for tetanus a greater variety of remedies had 
been used, and, perhaps, w T ith less success, than for any other affec¬ 
tion, with the exception, probably, of glanders. When chloroform 
was introduced it was regarded as another panacea. In looking 
through the writers on tetanus he found some singular and remark¬ 
able instances. One French veterinary surgeon actually castrated a 
horse, seeking to cure him by that means. In another case the 
amount of blood taken from the animal was perfectly fabulous— 
from eighteen to twenty quarts in the course of six or nine days. 
Mr. Broad’s remarks, to a considerable extent, corroborated what he 
(Mr. Hunt) was about to say. Some twenty years ago he had 
seen hydrocyanic acid administered to a great extent. The doses 
w r ere larger than those which Mr. Lawson had advocated, and pos¬ 
sibly to that cause might be attributed the absence of success. The 
amount of excitement consequent upon administering large quan¬ 
tities of acid was great. Mr. Lawson would, perhaps, state whether 
he had found that to be the case. 
Mr. Lawson replied that, in the first case he tried the acid, he 
gave a dose three times a day, but as it created very great excite¬ 
ment he discontinued it. 
Mr. Hunt (resuming) said attention had been directed to the 
acute and subacute symptoms. Of late years, he found that the sub¬ 
acute had outnumbered the acute cases. Whether the disease had 
lost some portion of its former character he was not prepared to say. 
A few years ago he had a case which recovered, and, being anxious 
as to what the ultimate result might be, he purchased the horse. 
The animal carried his (Mr. Hunt’s) partner for two seasons, and was 
then used in harness, doing very well. Alluding to quietude, he had 
a case at that moment just recovering. The disease belonged to the 
