The Treatment of Tetanus with 

 Passiflora Incarnata. 



Tetanus is one of the several conditions which 

 affect veterinary patients for which there is as yet no 

 generally accepted treatment. Antitetanic serum has 

 fully established its worth as a sure prophylactic but 

 there is much doubt as to its real value when the 

 symptoms of the disease are once in evidence. 



The accepted and, at the present time, the method 

 most in use when serum is used in the treatment of 

 this condition, is the injection of only one or two im- 

 mense doses in the outset of the treatment. It is 

 quite generally believed that after this the further ad- 

 ministration of serum is of no benefit. Occasionally 

 cases are reported in which a rapid recovery appar- 

 ently follows the injection of antitetanic serum. It is 

 doubtful whether these cases are cases of genuine 

 tetanus. Real tetanus due to infection by Nicolaier's 

 bacillus is always a disease which persists for a long 

 time. A recovery in four wxeks is considered rapid ; 

 usually it requires six or eight weeks. 



In the treatment of this disease, we must rely al- 

 most wholly upon agents which will reduce the 

 nervous excitability, and the entire treatment of teta- 

 nus today is symptomatic, with the exception of the 

 local treatment of the wound, when it can be found. 



Usually the attending veterinarian is satisfied with 

 the condition of his patient in this disease, if he can 

 keep his patient free from spasmodic m.uscular con- 

 tractions, trisms especially affecting the masseters and 



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