Excerpt from Canada Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 16: A Monthly Record of Medical and Surgical Science; August, 1887-June, 1888 It never having been my fortune during my student career or Subsequently, when for many months I haunted the chief hospitals of London - to have met with a single case of tetanus, I naturally became impressed with the idea that this was an exceedingly rare disease - as rare, in fact, as I had been taught to regard it fatal. Such an impression, correct enough with regard to its occurrence in temperate climates, I knew did not hold good in the tropics and among the negroes. Still, I was not prepared to find it so very common. The thirteen cases whose histories are here given have been met with in a general practice extending over little more than two and a half years. Besides these, I can call to mind at least two other cases which were prescribed for as dispensary patients, but which were sub sequently lost sight of. A better idea of the relative frequency of its occurrence may be formed from the following statistics of the Barbadoes General Hospital During seven years, since 1878, there have been 103 cases of tetanus ont of a total of cases of all sorts treated in-door - an average of nearly 15 cases a year, and in the pro portion of about 1 in every 140 cases of all sorts treated. The 103 consisted of 54 cases of traumatic tetanus and 49 of the idiopathic variety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.