Synonyms. Definition: infectious disease, due to bacillus, and shown by tonic spasms of groups of voluntary muscles. Animals susceptible: warm-blooded animals—dogs and chickens least: ⅔ds solipeds, ⅐th cattle. Pathology and Causes: Bacillus tetani: 4 to 5µ by 0.2 to 0.3µ, often enlarged by spore at one end; anærobic, liquefying, tardily motile, until spore forms, grows in ordinary, alkaline media under hydrogen, death point 60° to 65° C. (140° to 149° F.), for spores 80° C. (176° F.), for an hour, dried it lives for years, in putrid matter 2½ months, stains easily, saprophytic in garden mould, in ingesta of man and horse, abundant in tropics; infection local, killed by oxygen in blood, toxins tetanize: tetanin, spasmotoxin, toxalbumin, diastase; spasms first local near wound, then abruptly general, intravenously causes general spasms first, theory of fermentation in blood; changes in nerve cells, neuroglia, ependyma, peripheral nerves: muscles soft, pallid, red, ruptured fibres, ecchymosis; rigor mortis early, marked: sarco-lactic acid. Accessory causes: traumas and their causes, parturition, umbilical infection, alimentary. General symptoms: incubation 3 to 15 days, minimum 6 hours; tonic contraction of muscle groups of locomotor system beginning near infection wound,—trismus, orthrotonos, opisthotonos, emprosthotonos, pleurosthotonos, ocular muscles; costive, difficult urination, hyperæsthesia, irritability, perspiration, hyperthermia, mastication, deglutition, sucking. Symptoms in _horse_: neck raised concave above, nose elevated, nostrils wide, eyes sunken, haw protruded, ears rigid, pricked, facial muscles rigid, prominent, mouth drawn back, muscles of back hard, tail elevated, trembles, limbs extended outward, stiff, stilty, jaws clenched or open slightly, stands. Symptoms in _cattle_; _sheep_ and _goat_; _swine_; _dogs_; _birds_: Course: violent cases with short incubation are rapid and fatal; mild ones with prolonged incubation hopeful; cattle slow, sheep, goats and dogs acute. Mortality: sheep and pigs 100 per cent.; horses 75 to 85; cows 70 to 80; lambs very fatal. Death from asphyxia, hyperpyrexia, or exhaustion. Lesions: trauma, often healed; congested nerves, gray horns of myelon, increase of cells and granules in nervous matter of cord, corpus striatum, cerebellum; blood extravasations at torn muscle fibres, intestinal and cystic congestion. Diagnosis: from _strychnia poisoning_ by slow advance, and persistence of spasm; from _rabies_ by absence of bite, the continuous masseteric spasms, by absence of resentment, mischief, hallucinations or depraved appetite; from _rheumatism_ by the persistent trismus, hyperæsthesia and excitability; from _meningitis_ by the trismus, perfect mentality, absence of clonic spasm; from _tetany_ by shorter and less perfect remissions, failure to develop under nerve pressure, or improve under thyroid extract; from