783 LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
Mr. Dixon had, during twenty years’ experience, seen several 
cases, and adopted various remedies with a very uncertain result. 
He should certainly give trial to Mr. Lawson’s plan in any future 
case which came under his care. 
Mr. Carter , of Bradford, mentioned several cases. He had used 
aloes with some success. He had had a case succeeding on docking, 
which recovered, through the use of hydrocyanic acid, in two- 
drachm doses, given per rectum. 
Mr. Toll , Lichfield, had met with seven cases ; four belonged to 
the traumatic class, and all of them died. The others were of the 
idiopathic class, and only one of them recovered. His treatment 
for the successful cases was aloes, besides which very little medicine 
was used. A sloppy diet was allowed. He had seen hydrocyanic 
acid given with some effect in two cases. 
Mr. Hoivell , of Rochdale, gave the particulars of one or two 
cases. 
Mr. Fleming wished to add to what he had already said that, in 
a regiment of 400 horses, about four fifths were mares, and there 
was not a single case of lock-jaw among them. It would appear 
that the disease was more prevalent among one sex than the other. 
He had been very much impressed with the tone of Mr. Lawson’s 
excellent paper. He (Mr. Fleming) thought that if there was one 
thing more than another that tended to raise the profession it was 
their extreme solicitude for the sufferings of their patients. Hu¬ 
manity was a principle which they ought to exercise towards all 
animals. 
Mr. Smith, of Ormskirk, gave the result of twenty years’ expe¬ 
rience. The balance, he said, was on the wrong side. There had 
been more deaths than recoveries. He fired one patient’s back all 
along the spine, but the animal died. Another patient recovered 
under the use of prussic acid and occasional purgative medicine, 
the whole body being wrapped in turpentine blankets. His own 
practical experience convinced him that all the cases he had brought 
round would have recovered had they been merely put into a loose 
box, and kept perfectly quiet. 
Mr. John Greaves , Altrincham (having been requested by the 
President to state the result of his experience), said that he had not 
met with much success of late. He had lost most of his patients 
during the last few years, although he had tried hydrocyanic acid; 
but, perhaps, the absence of success was owing to his having ad¬ 
ministered it per rectum. Formerly, his plan was, if the pulse 
indicated it, to bleed, give physic, use counter-irritation and injec¬ 
tions, with quietude. He had cured one case with turpentine ad¬ 
ministered through the nostrils in four-ounce doses. He had also 
used opium with success, and had tried tincture of aconite, but did 
not approve of it. He had seen tetanus in two, two-year-old, colts 
brought on by exposure. Both died in about eight hours from the 
commencement of the attack. A year ago he witnessed two cases 
of idiopathic tetanus in cows ; they also died. The cases he had 
seen recover, generally speaking, were, as far as he could remember, 
