64- Cafe of Tetanus cured hy Wine. 



fteflfed in prafticc, or remember to have feen dcfcribed, the 

 bark, whle, cold-bath, and, in many indances, opium, mufk, 

 and mercuf)', have been exhibited at the fame time : I mud 

 except one cafe, recorded by Dr. Carrie, in the Memoirs of 

 the Medical Society of London, in which, the patient re- 

 jecting the mixture of bark and wine, the bark was omitted, 

 and the wine was employed alone, which ultimately ef- 

 fefted a cure; but in this cafe, opium, mercury, and the 

 cold and warm bath, had been previoufly employed, but to 

 no purpofe. 



This complicated mode of praAice cannot but be prejudicial 

 in any difeafe ; in lock-jaw it mufl: efpecially prove inju- 

 rious, by haraffing the patient, and by offending the ftomach 

 with the difcordant and naufeous mixture of the remedies 

 above mentioned : if, therefore, a prai^lice more (imple, and, 

 at the fame time, more efficacious can be devifed, it is cer- 

 tainly a defideratum in the treatment of this formidable and 

 fatal difeafe. 



Having, in a variety of difeafes, attended with great ex- 

 hauftion of the vital powers, employed wine alone, with fuc- 

 cefs, without the ufe of thofe remedies which are ufually pre- 

 fcribed in this condition of the body, I long fince refolved to 

 give it a trial in lock-jaw. 



In January I7C)8, a merchant of this city, while engaged 

 in opening a box of goods, ftruck the infide of his right hand 

 upon a nail ; the fkin was confiderably torn, but the wound 

 did not appear to extend beneath the integuments. In twenty^ 

 four hours his hand became painful, and fwelled, attended 

 with great heat and rednefs, which fpread over the wrift. 

 lie immediately applied a poultice of bread and milk to the 

 part affe<Sled. In forty-eight hours the pain extended the 

 whole length of his arm, and produced fome uneafinefs 

 about his throat, efpecially in the a6l of chewing and fwal- 

 lowing. He became alarmed, and applied to me for advice. 

 I found him in great pain ; but being free from fever, I 

 direded him to have recourfe to wine ; to take a large wine- 

 glafs full cvcv hour until his pain was removed; and, in 

 addition to the ufe of wine, to apply a comprefs, wet with 

 fpirits, to the wound. When he had taken to the amount 



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