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PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 551 



Art. XXX. 



Of the Ufi of Mercury in ConvuXfi'ue Difof" 

 ders, by Dr Donald Monro, Phyft-^ 

 cian to St George's Hofpital, London, 



THE convulfive diforders called op'tf" 

 thotanus and tetanus, which come 

 ^fter lying in the fields, or being expofed 

 to alternate heat, cold, and moifture, and 

 other fuch caufes, are very common in 

 the Weft Indies, and other hot climates ; 

 and are fometimes, though but very rare- 

 ly, obferved in Great Britain. 



They are mentioned by Hippocrates, 

 Celfus, and other antient authors; buc 

 the beft account we have of them is that 

 publiftied by Dr Lionel Chalmers o£ 

 Charleftown in South Carolina, in the 

 fifft volume of Medical Obfervations and 



Inquiries, 



