EDITORIAL. 
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Tetanus Anti-Toxine. —There is probably no subject 
and no new application of the serum therapy which at pres¬ 
ent is more interesting to the veterinarian than the effects and 
the advantages that can be obtained by the injections of anti- 
toxine against that dreadful disease tetanus for the treatment 
of which the entire veterinary pharmacopia has yet been un- i 
able to produce a comparatively sure treatment. 
Is anti-toxine advantageous only as a preventive, or is it 
to be lecommended as a means of treatment, as a curative 
agent? 
If we are to believe entirely and only what has been 
written by European authors, and among them Prof. E. No- - 
card, anti-toxine is only advantageous as a preventive. The 
learned professor of the Alfort school is delivering to the 
French veterinarians enormous quantities of serum which is 
used as a prophylactic agent. This is very good—but can it 
be expected that, as such only, veterinarians can use it_ 
and is it probable that everyone who performs an operation 
will be induced or allowed to apply this treatment in all cases 
where tetanus is likely^ to follow—even if he were going to use ; 
it only against castration, or traumatism of the foot and a few 
other diseases, which are the conditions where the disease is 
probably more likely to appear. 
We have been for a long time inclined to be of that opinion, i 
but the reports that have recently come to our ears have 
made us doubt the correctness of our judgment. 
We know well enough that the anti-toxine has already 
been tried by several American veterinarians, but unfortunate- ] 
ly they have failed to record the results of their experiments— \ 
undoubtedly a very gross carelessness. 
Dr. Gibiei, of the New York Pasteur Institute, has report- I 
ed to us verbally the history of several cases which he has I 
been able to observe while preparing horses to furnish him 
