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in favour of that method. The use of aloes he had discontinued 
years ago, and he did not believe in that drug at all. His father 
cured a traumatic case by brandy in large doses, besides which only 
two small doses of aloes were administered. The patient was about 
a month on the way. Cold water he (the speaker) had tried in 
every mode that had hitherto been conceived, but he had nothing 
to urge in its favour. He had also tried hot water and the steam 
bath. In one very severe case he adopted the latter course. The 
case was of the traumatic class, and a mare. She was treated with 
all the gentleness that could be devised. A temporary bath was 
constructed for her reception. Steam was let into it, but the expe¬ 
riment produced no beneficial effect, and eventually the patient died. 
His most successful treatment was with small doses of aconite, 
chloroform, and Fleming’s tincture, two or three drops diluted with 
water, and given two or three times a day. 
Wounds he invariably lanced, if there was heat, disturbance, 
or unnatural dryness about them. To the remarks he had offered 
on the use of hydrocyanic acid he could only add that, if they ever 
got a healthy patient that had to be destroyed, they had better try 
the effects of a double quantity. By that means they would be 
able to ascertain what effect the drug produced upon an animal 
in a healthy state, as well as in a state of£disease. 
Mr. Cartright , of Whitchurch, said it seemed to him as if there 
was something inexplicable in the subject, for it was a most extra¬ 
ordinary fact that, in the course of forty years’ practice, he had met 
with only one case of tetanus, and that was during his time at col¬ 
lege. The patient was a pack-horse, whose tail, being curved, was 
amputated high up, The animal died. He had seen a case of 
tetanus in a dog. 
Mr. Broad remarked on the great difficulty of administering 
the medicine to these patients, and made some suggestions on the 
subject. 
The President then drew the discussion to a close. He said that 
it would be quite unnecessary for him, at this late period of the 
evening, to sum up at any length, or even to make any observation, 
though he could refer to several successful, as well as many unsuc¬ 
cessful cases which had been under his treatment. Ilis thirty 
years’ practice had been attended with scarcely anything but non¬ 
success in tetanus. He had had recourse to bloodletting and the 
application of slieep-skins, blisters, and mercurial ointment, from the 
neck to the tail. In one patient he used rowels in the thighs in 
addition, and this case recovered; hut when other patients were 
subjected to the same treatment they died one after another. He had 
lately had an opportunity to put Mr. Lawson’s method of treatment 
into practice. The case occurred in a large well-seasoned cart¬ 
horse. He commenced with him in its early stage; he gave six 
drachms of aloes, which, however, neither nauseated nor purged. 
He then administered half-drachm doses of the acid twice a day. 
The animal lived twelve days. He believed the patient would have 
eventually recovered ; the jaws were considerably relaxed, and he 
