9IO Veterinary Obstetrics 



Tetanus infection may find entrance into the genital tract under 

 still other conditions during the puerperal state, and induce 

 typical tetanus. The obstetrist or others may readily introduce 

 the bacilli into the genital tract, during a case of dystokia or 

 the removal of placenta. Having gained the susceptible genital 

 tract, the organisms may there multiply and induce the disease. 

 The period of incubation, symptoms, pathology and treatment 

 are identical with those of cases of tetanus in which the micro- 

 organisms have entered by other avenues. The number of cases 

 of puerperal tetanus is small, so that the comparative prognosis is 

 uncertain. In the case of prolapse of the uterus mentioned on 

 page 827, the mare recovered successively from uterine prolapse 

 and from tetanus. 



