Cafe of Tetanus cured by iViue. 63 



thtfe phiEnomena appear, a veffel, furniflii^d with a baro- 

 meter, thermometer, and hygrometer, below, aiKl alfo at the 

 top of the maft, were feat out to pafs below the horizon and 

 return again ; and an obferver at land, having like inftru- 

 ments, were to note, at certain intervals, the fituation and 

 figure of the images, it might throw further light upon this 

 fubjetl, and lead to ufeful difcoveries refpecling the ftate of 

 the atmofphere, from a conjunAion of the caufes which affe£l 

 thefe inftruments. 



VII. C(fe of Tetanus cured hy Wine. Communicated in a 

 Letter to Dr. James Gregory, Profeffor of the PraOice 

 oj Phyfic in the Univerfily of Edinburgh, hy Dr. David 

 Ho SACK, Profejjor of Botany a?id Materia Medica in 

 Colutnbia College *. 



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X HE treatment of lock-jaw by the ufe of tonic remedies, 

 has been long fince (iUKSlioned by the fuccefsful practice of 

 Dr. Cochran of Nevi?, (fee xVIed. Commenuiries, Vol. TIL) 

 Dr. Wright of Jamaica, (fee London Med. Obf. and Inq, 

 Vol,^VI.) Dr. Rulh of Philadelphia, (fee American Philof. 

 Tranfadions,) and Dr. Qu-rle of Liverpool, (Ice Med. Mem. 

 of London, Vol. III.) but the fame treatment, in other 

 hand.<, has not been equally fuccefeful, infomuch that it is 

 ftill confidered as one of thofe difeafes which generally baffle 

 medical prefcription. To what caufes is this failure to be 

 afcribed ? Not to any defe£t in the principle upon which 

 thofe remedies have been prefcribed : the cafes which have 

 been recorded of the fuceeis of tonic medicines are too nu- 

 merous to admit a doubt, that the proximate caufe of lock- 

 jaw confifts in an exhaufted Itate of the fenforial power from 

 violent irritation applied to the nervous fyftem : liiniulants 

 and tonics are therefore the remedies which are beft calcu- 

 lated to reftor^ this loft energy. Their tailure I have conli-/ 

 dcred to proceed from the complicated and inert manner iuj 

 ■which they have ufually been adminiftered. 



In the greater number of cafes which I have either wit- 

 f From th-: limcrican MfJica! Rf'^yi'.iy, VyI. III. No. t. 



