Excerpt from The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 128: July to December, 1909

Tetanus is commonly found in the superficial layers of the soil, especially common in garden soil. Out of fifty samples of soil taken at haphazard from various parts of England, tetanus was found in twenty-seven. It can live and thrive in the intestine of the horse, is commonly found in horse manure, much less frequently in cow's, and rarely in sheep. Tetanus readily infects the horse, the rabbit, the guinea-pig, and the white mouse, fortunately it seems to have very feeble powers of infecting man, nor does it easily grow in the tissues of either the cow or the sheep. Tetanus is an anaerobe, but not strictly so, it has been found growing in the lungs, where it must have been exposed to the air, it can grow in water, exposure to the sun's rays retards, if it does not actually stop, the growth of this organism.

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