Show origin of tho the lockjaw science is gradually alienating us from the animals who had bad ben our friends M I 1 Past eurs theories imo inter sting and valuable neier created line of cleavage beav ren een man and dog do ind now M vernettie Vernet Verne jul til is ia trying to do tho alio same thing between man and horse M Ver verneuil ruil is a firm believer in the microbe theory and if you show him the disease he will do his has best to show allow you the mi ild robe latterly he has taken up lockjaw as a subject and what lie hu has to say upon it will strike the unlearned with surprise certainly perhaps b also so with consternation it seems aho tha disease is at once virulent and contagious and that it zomes to man almost entirely from aiom horses na M verneuil has as his facts and ha 3 estat statistics to hand coachmen and stable boys grooms 5 grooms and helpers these are tho the classes among whom the disease is ia most common A bito bite of a horse is a very ery general cause caus 3 but something less than a bite will give lockjaw to a likely subject among horses themselves I 1 it rages like an epi Ld demic emic all horse proprietors who 1 hao in their stables a patient from tetanus re ld warne warned to isolate him from man and beast and if ho he dies to bury him with scrupulous care it if only the microbe could be discovered M verneuil would stamp out the disease he has not found it yet but he is full of hope and full of enthusiasm pall mall budget |