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with anti-toxic serum. These animals presented such devel- 
Dped tetanic spmptoms that we felt justified to look upon 
them as fatal cases. Dr. Gibier tells us that they recovered 
by the treatment of anti-toxine. 
Recently he also related to us the case of one of his horses, 
the finest of his large stable, already immunized against diph¬ 
theria, to which, by some unexplainable error, 25 cc. of strong 
tetanic virus was injected—a quantity whose enormous pro¬ 
portion can be calculated when one thinks that only two drops 
of the same virus would be sufficient to give an animal a fatal 
attack of the disease. 
Within half an hour, however, he was successful enough to 
inject to this horse a very large proportion of anti-toxine, 
partly in and round the wound where the virus had been 
injected, partly directly in the veins. 
The horse escaped all further developments of the trouble. 
With all these facts in view, and the value of the cases re¬ 
ported by Dr. Gibier of the recovery of several of his tetanic 
patients by the use of anti-toxine, and also in the presence 
of the records of cases of recovery which have been observed 
by human practitioners, is there not an obligation on the 
part of the veterinarians to have recourse to the same treat¬ 
ment and to use anti-toxine not only as a prophylactic but 
also as a curative agent. 
We think there is—and we would take this opportunity to 
ask those of our colleagues who would try this treatment to 
remember their obligations to the profession and to their con¬ 
freres by publishing the results of their experiments. 
The Review is always open to them. 
Jury Duty in New York State. —New York State 
veterinarians seem to be doomed to temporary disappointment 
in whatever steps they take toward obtaining legislation in 
their behalf. 
We all remember, some years ago, when the bill for regis¬ 
tration had, after years of attempts followed by as many years 
of failures, passed both houses at Albany, a great joy existed 
among veterinarians, and many words of congratulation were 
exchanged. 
