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Flamftead’s time, 1690, February 14, preceded ArQurus 
5’ in time, now comes to the meridian 6” after him. 
Likewife from the very {mall difference of declination be- 
tween Ardturus and his attendant, it appears that Arctu- 
rus by his proper motion moves almoft 2” foutherly every 
year in a. circle, 
N° XXVIII. 
Obfervations on the Caufe and Cure of the Tetanus, by 
Benyamin Rusu, M. D. Profeffor of Chemiftry im 
the Univerfity of Pennfylvamia.. 
Read Mar. URING my attendance upon the military 
en hofpitals of the United States, in the courfe: 
of the late war, I met with feveral cafes of the Tetanus. I 
had frequently met with this diforder in private praCtice, and 
am forry to fay that I never fucceeded with the ordinary re- 
medy of opium in any one cafe that came under my care. I 
found it equally ineffetual in the army. Baffled in my ex- 
pectations from a remedy that had been fo much celebrated, 
{ began to inveftigate more particularly the nature of the 
diforder. I found it to be a diforder of warm climates, and 
warm feafons. This led me to afcribe it to relaxation. I 
refolved to attempt the cure of it by a fet of medicines in 
fome meafure the oppofites of moft of the medicines that. 
had been employed in that diforder. Soon after I adopt- 
ed this refolution, [ was called to vifit Col. John Stone, 
who was wounded through the foot at the battle of Ger- 
mantown on the 4th of Otober 1777. He was in the 
third day of a Tetanus. His fpafms were violent and his 
pains fo exquifite that his cries were heard near a hun- 
dred yards from his quarters. His head was thrown a little 
backwards, and his jaw had become ftiff and contracted. 
Hes 
