226 OBSERVATIONS on tHE TETANUS. 
He was under the care of a fkilful regimental furgeon 
who was pouring down opium in large quantities with- 
out effec. 
Duty and friendfhip both led me to do my utmoft to fave 
the life of this valuable officer. I immediately difmifled 
the opium, and gave him large quantities of wine and 
bark, to the amount of two or three ounces of the latter, 
and from a bottle to three pints of the former in the day. 
In a few hours I was delighted with their effets. His 
fpafms and pains were lefs frequent and violent, and he 
flept for feveral hours, which he had not done for feveral 
days and. nights before. 
With the fame indication in view, I applied a blifter be- 
tween his fhoulders, and rubbed in two or three ounces 
of mercurial ointment upon the outfide of his throat. He 
continued to mend gradually under the operation of thefe 
medicines, fo that in ten days he was out of danger, al- 
though the fpafm continued in his wounded foot for feve- 
ral wecks afterwards. In the fummer of the year 1782 
I was called to vifit a fervant girl of Mr. Alexander 
Todd, merchant of this city, who had brought on a Teta- 
nus by fleeping in the evening on a damp brick pave- 
ment, after a day in which the mercury in Farenheit’s 
thermometer had ftood at near go°. The cafe was near- 
ly as violent and alarming as the one I have defcribed. 
I treated her in the fame manner, and with the fame fuc- 
cefs. ‘To the.above named medicines, 1 added only the 
oil.of amber which fhe took in large dofes, after I fut- 
pected the tonic powers of the bark and wine began to 
loofe their effects. The good effects of the oil were very 
obvious. She recovered gradually and has continued ever 
fince in good health. In the fummer of the fame year 
J was called to Alexander Leflie, a joiner, who had run a 
nail in his foot. I found him the day afterwards in ex- 
treme pain, with fmall convulfions and now and then a 
twinge in hig jaw. The wound in his foot was without 
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