3$Z Treatment of Locked- Jaw by Elcclr'icity. 



had him, in this ftate, carried in a blanket to a forge-dam 

 which was at hand, and plunged in. He was then infenfible. 

 His fpafnis immediately abated, and, in twenty minutes, to- 

 tally ceafed. The debility induced by mufcular exertion was 

 fuch that it required feveral days before he could be removed ; 

 after which he rapidly recovered, and is at this time perfectly 

 well. 



This was a complete tetanus; and, I think, tetanus from 

 wounds, &c. would yield to the fame mode of treatment. 



TREATMENT OF LOCK6D-JAW BY ELECTRICITY. 



Dr. Samuel Perry, of New-Bedford [America], has com- 

 municated to the public the fuccefsful refult of two experi- 

 ments, in curing the locked-jaw by means of electricity. 

 Previous to the application of the electrical fluid, recourfe 

 had been had to bleeding, cathartics, antifpafmodics, the 

 warm bath, and opium applied internally and externally, 

 without the lead etfeft in either cafe. But a fmall receiver 

 being filled, and difcharged through the jaws of the perfons 

 affected, they flew open inftantaneoufly. In one cafe the 

 complaint was entirely removed by three fliocks ; in the 

 other, by an occafional (hock for a few days. Both the 

 patients were ftrong and healthy perfons, the one a man and 

 the other a woman, and the mode of treating them had been 

 fnnilar. 



Dr. Pearson's Lectures on the Materia Medica, Practice 

 of Phyfic and Chemiftry, will recommence at theElaboratorv, 

 Whitcomb-ftrect, Leicefter-fquare, on Tuefday, February 3, 

 At eight in the morning. 



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