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NEWS ANI) SUNDRIES. 
PRACTICE TO DISPOSE OF. 
For immediate disposal, an old-established veterinary practice 
in New York city, with everything pertaining to the practice. 
Terms reasonable. Satisfactory reasons why the present owner 
wishes to retire. 
Address E. F. Steel, 
P. O. Station A, N. Y. City. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
The Nature of Tetanus. —Dr. Shakespeare, pathologist to 
the Philadelphia Hospital, read a paper upon Tetanus before the 
Section of Pathology at the International Congress, in which he 
related a series of experiments consisting in inoculations of rab¬ 
bits with material obtained from the medulla and spinal cord of a 
horse or a mule which had died of traumatic tetanus. The inoc¬ 
ulations were based on the methods adopted by Pasteur in rabies, 
and included injections beneath the cerebral dura mater, as well 
as subcutaneous and intermuscular injections. He concluded 
from these researches that traumatic tetanus of the horse and 
mule is somtimes, if not always, an infectious disease, transmissi¬ 
ble to other animals, and therefore possibly to man ; and that the 
virus, elaborated and multiplied during the progress of the disease, 
is capable of reproducing the disease in other animals by inocula- 
tion beneath the dura mater. The virus is contained in the medulla 
and spinal marrow, and, like that of rabies, is capable of attenua¬ 
tion by exposure to dry air at a temperature of summer heat. It 
also resembles the rabic virus in producing more intense effects 
when inserted beneath the cerebral dura mater than when injected 
subcutaneously or between muscles. Dr. Shakespeare reserved 
conclusions as to the prophylactic effect .of inoculations of the 
attenuated virus, and pointed out that his results, in connection 
with those of Nicolayer, Rosenbach and others, suggested forcibly 
the dependence of traumatic tetanus, both in animals and man, 
upon the action of a specific infectious virus, and the probability 
that man may acquire the disease from animals—notably the 
horse. 
