Abstract
To the Editor: —Recent articles and communications inThe Journalon the contagion or microbe of tetanus, and its relation to the offal of animals, have added interest, in view of the occurrence of a case of tetanus which, during the week past, has in this city reached a fatal termination. The victim was a woman of advanced age, but of notably vigorous health. About two weeks previous to her death she had occasion to step into a poultry coop or enclosure, when a nail, concealed by dirt and offal of the poultry, penetrated the plantar surface of the instep. In a few days stiffness of the cervical tissues appeared, with the result stated. As many medical men in a lifetime of active practice fail to meet a case of this kind, so rare is the disease outside of hospitals, albeit rusty nail wounds of the feet are sufficiently frequent,
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