TETANUS. 
Ill 
tioiis.* The patient grew perceptibly worse for thirty-six hours 
following the injection of the sernm, after which the tensity of 
the muscular system gradually relaxed, and in three days after 
the crisis the horse had lain down. Serous infiltration of the 
dependent portions of the body and limbs responded to potas¬ 
sium nitrate and digitalis. In ten days withdrew all indicated 
treatment. The animal has made a perfect recovery. Was it 
the serum treatment ? I think it was. Looking at it, not as a 
specific, but as an adjuvant to our resources to combat tetanus 
and especially as a preventive agent when so used. 
TETANUS. 
Bv Walker S. Phillips, V. S., Reading, Pa. 
Read before the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation, March, 1898. 
This terrible disease is of nervous origin. It generally fol¬ 
lows some operation or severe injury, and also frequently occurs 
from the pricking of the sole by a nail. As this affliction pro¬ 
duces a peculiar irritability of the nervous system, it is of great 
importance to have the patient removed to a remote or isolated 
place, and kept as quiet as possible. In my treatment of these 
cases I have very seldom administered purgatives, but have 
taken advantage of bran mashes the first four to six days, to 
keep the bowels moving. During my thirty-eight years prac¬ 
tice I can recall sixteen cases, traumatic and idiopathic, which 
fully recovered, and none of which I placed in slings. 
Treatment. —Hypodermically, morphia, 3 grains, once daily. 
L-—Ext. belladonna, 8 drachms; laudanum, 4 ounces ; chloro¬ 
form, 4 ounces ; alcohol, 2 ounces. Sig.—Given with syringe 
twice daily in one-half ounce doses. 
This treatment I have often found to actually relax the 
muscles for a time, then again, would find them in the former 
rigid condition. 
After the fourteenth or sixteenth day I generally consider 
*The immunizing units were not given. 
