J52 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Inquiries, by a Society of Phyficians in Lon-^ 

 don, where the Doaor, after giving a ve- 

 ry accurate hiftory of the fymptoms and 

 caufes of thefe diieafes, obferves, that 

 few recover in comparifon of the number 

 they attack; and that warm baths and 

 opiares are principally to be depended 

 upon for a cure ; which agrees with the 

 pravftice ufed in the few cafes of the lock- 

 ed jaw, which have been fuccefsfully 

 treated in this country. 



Most late praclitioners look upon 

 thefe diforders as very fatal. The geii- 

 tleiTian, who was phyiician to the naval 

 hofpital at Gibraltar during the late war, 

 told me, that he had had above forty peo- 

 ple under his care for the tetanus j attend- 

 ed with the locked jaw, who all died, ex- 

 cept one, notwithftanding he had ufed e- 

 vacuations, baths, and fomentations, and 

 had given very freely of opiates, and all 

 other medicines that he had ever heard re- 

 commended in fuch cafes. The difor- 

 der in the one who recovered was occa- 

 fioned by a hurt of a finger j and the 



amputation 



