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trifmus nafcentium, “ In hac urbe affliGantur plurimi infantes, 
adeo feroci convulfione mandibulz. inferioris, ut ea apprehenfi, 
nullo poffint motu illam movere, et. abhine fuctus la@tis impe- 
ditur omnino. Tot interficit mala ifta convulfio, ac variole 
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aut morbilli. In hoc periculum incurrunt recenter nati ufque 
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ad nonum fuze nativitatis diem, eoque tranfato, omne difcrimen 
ceffare docuit Jemper experientia.” For thefe and fome. other 
obfervations, from the writings of a Spanifh phyfician, we are 
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indebted to my fricnd Door Cleghorne’s valuable treatife on 
the difeafes of Minorca. After the hiftory of the difeafe, the 
doftor obferves that it is needlefs to add the remedies prefcribed 
by the Spanifh author, as he ingenuoufly confeffes the difeafe to 
be fo feldom curable, that in twenty years pra@ife he had {carce 
known fix to recover. 
In Germany, Heifter, de maxille fpafmo, obferves “ Quod fi 
“ fponte, five e caufa interna, hic maxille {pafmus in infantibus, 
“ ut feepe vidi, contingit ut plurimum moriuntur et vix ullum fer- 
“ vatum vidi; licet laudatiffima remedia nervina et antifpafmo- 
* dica interné atque externé quam folertiffimé adhibita fuerint.” 
Horer, in the firft volume of the Ata Helvetica, has given a 
long account of a difeafe not infrequent in fome parts of Switzer- 
land, which Sauvages and Cullen feem to think of the fame fpe- 
cies with the preceding, but which differs from them very mate- 
rially in’ fome refpedts. The title of his paper is, De tetano 
maxillze inferioris in Infantibus. “ Subje@um ifti obnoxium,” 
fays he, “ eft infans, qui inter tertiam et duodecimam etatis diem 
“ getatis diem verfatur. Cura hujus morbi, quamvis valde lenta 
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