At this time, when the serum therapy of disease is receiving close attention, it seems well to report all cases in which a test of this mode of treatment has been made. Tetanus is not the least important of the diseases in which antitoxic serum is employed as a curative means. Again, it appears especially desirable to report and consider carefully the fatal cases, knowing as we do the readiness with which good results are reported, while practitioners are not so apt to report the unsuccessful application of any therapeutic means. For these reasons the following case is reported as concisely as the bringing out of the necessary points will permit:
Victor C., aged 7 years, a compactly built boy, of Creole extraction, presented the first symptoms of the disease on the night of April 15, 1897, when he woke up with a painful stiffness of the muscles. Two weeks