Report of a paraplegic form of tetanus, after a foot's wound, in a patient with a pregress spinal cord disease (inflammatory, demyclinating?). The authors suggest that this case would be the reproduction in human pathology of the experimental works of Meyer, Ranson and others, demonstrating the possibility to limit the process to the posterior train of animals when, previously to the toxin injection in one of the posterior limbs, the spinal cord was transected.