REPORTS OF CASES. 
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fast becoming locked, so that medication by mouth was impos¬ 
sible, though would suck gruel, nibble on green food, as green 
corn, grass, etc. Stall dark and quiet ; the animal left entirely 
alone, except to feed, water, and for observation. 
Sept. 2d and 3d, remained about same (quiet), with very 
little uneasiness. 
On the 4th became very uneasy—stamping, champing jaws, 
profuse salivation ; 20 cc. antitoxin injected at 11 a. m. After 
this gradually calmed down to same condition as shown upon 
previous days, this continuing up to the morning of the 6th, 
when patient again became uneasy, this increasing throughout 
the day.. At 2 P. m. 40 cc. antitoxin injected, after this gradu¬ 
ally quieting down to about same condition as shown upon 
Sept 3d. 
From this date on he slowly and steadily improved ; was re¬ 
moved from slings on the 18th and discharged as cured Oct. 1st. 
Case No. II. . 
.Bay gelding, 9 years old, 1300 lbs. ; noticed acting wrong 
while working and was driven to Dr. Hollingworth’s office, 
where the doctor diagnosed the disease as tetanus and ordered 
animal sent to . hospital. Entered on Sept. 6th, and 100 cc. 
tetanus antitoxin injected at 11 p. m. The delay in injecting 
caused by being out of the antitoxin and supply had not reached 
us, though sent for the day previous. Animal very uneasy, so 
that it was a very difficult task to inject drug. Jaws at this 
time set very firmly, hocks turned out, tail elevated, mem- 
brana prominent. Considerable amount of nourishing gruels 
and green chopped food taken. Slings were also used, as in 
Case No. I. On the 7th animal quiet most of the time. At no 
period of his sickness were the spasms as severe as prior to in¬ 
jecting antitoxin, only the 100 cc. being used in this case. 
As for the cause of both cases, the mode of entrance of the 
bacillus is . not known, as no abrasions were found, upon very 
close examination, and no history of any previous injury. The 
above two cases, as others have, of like kind, impressed me that 
if the antitoxin is injected early in the disease before the cells 
of the system have taken up the toxin of the germs that we can 
get good results from antitoxin in tetanus. 
Dr. W. H. Darrympre, of the Louisiana State University, 
has been elected a member of the Executive Committee of the 
National Live Stock Association. 
