REPORTS OF CASES. 
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rated the piece. Interest in this case is that the animal was 
injured Sunday and undoubtedly ate well until Friday , while 
during that time there could have been no passage of faeces 
through the hernia and that part was gradually undergoing mor¬ 
tification. 
TETANUS TREATED BY SERUM AND HYPOSULPHITE OF SODA. 
By Sidney D. Myers, V. S., Wilmington, O. 
On Dec. 26, 1900, my attention was called to one of the 
horses used to draw the engine in our fire department. The 
driver said the horse had been acting stiangely for about four 
days, and on the day previous, while responding to an alarm, 
the horse had acted very badly. He is naturally very nervous, 
but on this occasion seemed more so than before, and was very 
hard to control. Upon examination I found a slight stiffness 
about the jaws. Any excitement would cause the membrana 
nictitans to cover about half of the eye; tail was elevated, ab¬ 
domen tucked up and constipation was present. On the near 
hind coronet was a calk wound, which the driver stated had 
been inflicted about ten days previous, and was about healed. 
Diagnosis : tetanus. 
I at once ordered the horse out of the team, and to be kept 
as quiet as possible and to be tied up so he could not lie down. 
I telegraphed Parke, Davis & Co. for sufficient antitetanic serum 
for one case. The next day, at noon (Dec. 27), I received six 
bulbs containing 10 cc. each. 
At 12.20 I injected the first bulb. At 6.20 p. m. the con¬ 
dition was unchanged, and I injected a second bulb. At 10.10 
p. M. injected the third bulb. 
Dec. 28, 8 A. M., condition unchanged, except patient did not 
clean up his corn very readily. I injected the fourth bulb. At 
1.30 P. M. he had eaten the morning feed of corn and cleaned up 
the noon feed of oats. Injected the fifth bulb. At 2.40 P. M. 
condition unchanged, when I injected the sixth bulb (66 cc., all 
told). 
Dec. 29, 8 A. M., condition unchanged. Prescribed saturated 
solution hyposulphite of soda, six fluid drams in drinking water, 
three times daily. 
The patient remained about the same, except that I would 
find him a little more nervous in the mornings than at night, 
until Jan. 3, or about 14 days from the time he was first noticed 
to be sick. From Jan. 3 he continued to improve until about 
Jan. 16, when all the symptoms had subsided. 
