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That might be expected. Often, indeed, had congestion in tetanus 
and other diseases been mistaken for inflammation. Mr. Lawson’s 
cures reflected very great credit upon his method of treatment. 
He (Mr. Haycock) had met with a moderate share of success in the 
treatment of tetanus, hut it was not to be compared with the essay¬ 
ist’s. He had had eleven cases. Of that number six died and five 
recovered. Of the recoveries, several were very violent cases. The 
first was a traumatic case. The patient was a mare, with a wound 
in the ischium ; she lived three weeks. The second had sustained 
a similar injury ; it was a horse, and was only ill eight hours. 
The next was an animal belonging to Lord Harewood ; tetanus 
resulted from docking. He saw the patient in the evening, and it 
was dead before morning. The fourth belonged to a livery-stable 
keeper in Yorkshire. The disease was brought on by the animal 
being plunged into snow. It died in the course of fourteen hours. 
The fifth case also occurred in Yorkshire. The patient had been 
ill a fortnight when he was called in. He had also had under his 
treatment, in Manchester, a little blood-horse, which died in twelve 
hours. Of the recoveries, one patient came from a livery-stable in 
Leeds, with broken knees; a second was a serious traumatic case. 
The animal belonged to a gentleman in Yorkshire. Both of them 
recovered in a month. They were treated with arnica and bella¬ 
donna internally, and arnica externally. The next case arose from a 
wound in the ischium of a very severe nature. At the outset the 
wound was very hot and swollen. It was treated with belladonna, 
chloroform, &c., administered in gruel. The animal recovered in 
about a month. He had also effected cures in two other cases, 
making a total of six cures against seven deaths. 
With regard to purging, Professor Dick used to say, in his lec¬ 
tures, “once purge them, and they are sure to recover.” During 
that time, however, that he (Mr. Haycock) was at college, three or 
four cases occurred in which purging was effected, and all of the 
patients died. Mr. Hunt had spoken of subacute types of the 
disease. He, however, thought that the cases of tetanus were not 
so severe as they were formerly, as the patients were left more to 
themselves, and dreadful forms of disease which used to be seen did 
not occur because they were not produced by violent treatment. The 
better way was to let them alone. It had been said that there was a 
change in the disease; he believed that the change was in the treat¬ 
ment. Mr. Lawson had informed him that death followed principally 
on injuries to the flanks and broken knees. It was desirable to ascer¬ 
tain what class of injuries in particular localities was mainly con¬ 
cerned in the production of fatal cases of the disease. He had 
found that injuries of the knees, flanks, and some other parts of the 
body, were not of a very severe nature. The worst forms of the 
disease which he had seen appeared in consequence of a "wound in 
the ischium, and a gathering in the hind foot, caused by a nail. 
Constipation was another great bugbear. He never administered 
physic in these cases. It would always be found that, when an 
animal was attacked by a very acute form of the disease, there was a 
