Cafe of Tetanus cured ly Wine, 6^ 



©f four glafles, he felt himfelf very fenfibly relieved; and by 

 the occafional ufe of the wine for twenty-four hours, his 

 pains entirely left him ; the fwelling fubfided, and in a few 

 4ays the wound was healed, without any unpleafant appear- 

 ances. 



What would have been the progrefs and termination of 

 this cafe, had it been left to itfelf, is uncertain ; but the 

 immediate good effefts of the treatment prcfcribed, encou- 

 raged me to make trial of the fame remedy in a cafe where 

 the difeafe might appear in a more formidable fliape. 



On Tuefday, March 13, 1798, about one o'clock P. M, 

 I was called to vifit a mulatto fervant woman of John Har- 

 rington, Efq. of this city. I was informed that about an 

 hour before, while engaged in waftiing clothes, Hie had 

 pricked herfelf with a pin in the wrift of her right arm. 

 The part at which the pin entered was upon the infide of 

 the wrifl, immediately over the conneiSlion of the radius with 

 the carpus. 



The pin was initanlly removed, and, finding no inconve- 

 nience from the accident, (lie returned to her employment. 

 In a fliort time flie felt a great degree of forenefs in the part 

 which had been injured, with pain fliooting occafionally to the 

 arm, flioulder, and neck. Thefe fymptoms, in a few minutes, 

 were fucceeded by ftiffnefs about the throat, difficulty of 

 fwallowing, fome interruption of her fpeech, and, at length, 

 a locked ftate of the jaws, attended with a fpafmodic con- 

 traftion of the mufcles at the back part of the neck, and 

 occafional fubfultus tendinum, with fome coldnefs of her 

 extremities. In this fuuation I found her. 



She was naturally of a delicate and irritable habit of body, 

 and had been much fubje£t to hyfterical complaints and fits 

 of faiiiting, which were fometimes induced by the moft 

 trifling caufes. Her irritability of habit was alfo at this time 

 probablv ijicrcafed, having hut three months before borne a 

 child, which f]ie was then fuckling. 



Although I have been long fince convinced of the infuffi- 



ciency of opium in the cure of this difeafe, in the hurry of 



the moment I gave her about fixty drops of laudanum in a 



fmall quantity of wine. Her jaws being clofely locked, it 



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