66 Cafe of Tetanus cured hy JVine. 



was with great difficulty adminiftered. In a few minutes 

 after fwallovving the laudanum flie fickened at the ftomach, 

 and vomited violently, complaining at the fame lime of great 

 pain and diftrefs at the pit of her ftomach. The anodyne 

 draught was entirely rejected ; but, upon a moment's reflec- 

 tion, I did not regret this circumftance, as the difeafe aflbmcd 

 a very decided charaAer, and I had made up my mind to relv 

 upon the eftefts of wine alone, without the afliftancc of any 

 other remedy : accordingly, about two o'clock, I direfted a 

 large wine-glafs full of Madeira wine ^thc glafs containing 

 about two oimces,) to be given pun6liially every hour, and 

 a cup of fago, or panado, with wine, to be given, from time 

 to time, as her nouriflmient. At this time another phyfi- 

 cian, who had alfo been called upon at the time of the acci- 

 dent, arrived. T related to him what had been done, and the. 

 mode of treatment which I dircfted for the patient. This 

 gentleman having had frequent opportunities of feeing this 

 difeafp, and having frequently witneffed the failure of the 

 ordinary mode of treatment, he at once, with great candour, 

 acceded to the plan propofed, and, in addition tf) the ufe of 

 wine, propofed the application of cauftic to the part which 

 had been wqunded. Accordingly the wound was freely pen- 

 cilled wjth the lunar cauftrc, and afterwards covered with a 

 poultice of bread and milk, with the view to obtain fuppura- 

 tion as foon as poffible. 



The wine was adminift;ercd with great fidelity, bv the mo- 

 ther of thp patient, until about five o'clock the next morning, 

 She had fome flight convulfions in the courfe of the after- 

 noon, but they were more of an hyftcrical fort, induced by 

 her great anxiety of mind, than to be afcribed to the difeafe 

 Itfelf. (k-nerally fpeaking, there had been a very manifeft; 

 abatement in all lier fymptoms, and flie had pafl'ed a more 

 comfortable niglit than could have been expeded. At five 

 o'clock on Wednefday morning, her miftrefs, alarmed at the 

 quantity of'wlne flip had taken, defifted from its further \\'(\t. 

 From this tinic appearances became more unfavourable, and 

 at eight o'clock her jaws, which had been relaxed during the 

 plentiful life of wine, again became ItifF and clofed. We 

 faw her at nine, and inuncdiately gave her about half a pint 



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