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amputation of that member on the firft 

 appearance of the locked jaw proved the 

 cure. 



As the remedies hitherto recommended 

 for the cure of thefe convuliive diforders 

 have proved fo ineffedlaal, the following 

 account of a fuccefsful method of cure 

 by mercurial undlions, communicated to 

 me by a gentleman who was formerly a 

 praditioner in phyfic in the ifland of 

 Jamaica, and who has allowed me to 

 tranfmit it to your fociety, cannot fail to 

 be acceptable. 



While this gentleman pradifed in Ja • 

 maica, he had a great number of cafes 

 of the tetanus, attended with the locked 

 jaw, under his care. At iirft, he ufed to 

 give very freely of opium, mulk, and o- 

 ther medicines of this clafs ; to bleed, and 

 make other evacuations, while he ufed 

 baths, fomentations, embrocations, and 

 other external applications, but all 

 without the leaft fuccefs ; and, as he had 

 loft a great many patients without being 

 fo lucky as to make one cure, he began 

 to believe that this diforder always pro- 



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