REPORTS OF CASES. 
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which died ten hours later, without a struggle, I made a post¬ 
mortem which showed meningeal congestion, haemorrhage and 
oedema of the brain and spinal cord, with a clot in the fourth 
ventricle. 
The lesions of parturient apoplexy are within the cranium 
and spinal column, and I believe that the profession will be 
agreed if they make examination of the material that comes 
into their hands. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
“ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner , but his skill dies zvith him. By re¬ 
cording his observations , he adds to the knozvledge of his profession, and assists by his facts 
in building up the solid edifice of pathological science 
AN ATTENDANT CONTRACTS TETANUS FROM A HORSE. 
By Francis Abeee, V. S., Quincy, Mass. 
December 15, 1899, a coachman stopped me on the street 
to say that a certain unfortunate horse (mare) had scratches. 
Would I leave some more medicine, such as he had used on an¬ 
other horse. He also remarked that the horse was stiff, and 
was then at the shop for the blacksmith to look over. (She 
had once had laminitis with a perfect recovery.) Next day the 
coachman again saw me, to say she had two sore eyes ; they 
looked sore and red in the corners. I then told him he proba¬ 
bly had a case of lockjaw to deal with. 
I was asked by owner to see the same and confirmed my 
supposition. Owner would have had animal killed, but I asked 
for it to try to treat, whereupon owner said he would have it 
treated himself. As the coachman had then gone with the 
family to their winter residence, the gardener was delegated to 
attend the horse. Horse received 10 c.c. antitetanin from Pas¬ 
teur Institute of Paris. Was kept in a box stall, screened by 
blankets, and twice a day received all the hay it wanted, to¬ 
gether with mash of shorts and oats, in which was a mixture of 
carbolic acid and cannabis indica. I never entered the stall 
from time of injection till recovery. None but gardener did, 
and he only twice a day, with orders not to touch the beast or 
speak to it. Now, for the interesting part. 
The coachman telephoned that the gardener had the lock¬ 
jaw, was in the city hospital, and the doctors had no hope for 
