66 ANALYTIC SECT. VIT- 
although it is corroborated by analogy and some 
high modern authorities. The following is the 
observation of Hippocrates to which I allude, and 
so far as it applies to tetanus, I have full yesh 
dence in its truth: 
Yrs oracus % Teravdve evoxAgnévw, muperos emilevorevos Aves TO 
vor 4nd——Aphoris. lvii. Lect. iv. 
Although this aphorism contains a rather too 
extended conclusion, as applied to convulsive dis- 
eases in general, yet most of them are sete 
terminated favourably by fever. 
ci. Excepting the local treatment recom- 
mended by Baron Larrey, when the spasm is 
referable to external injury, the present practice 
in tetanus is empiricism in the most extended 
sense of the word. Like other obstinate disorders, 
tetanus has a superfluity of antidotes, which sel- 
dom succeed but in the hands of their proposers: 
in recommending any new treatment, discrimi- 
nation between spontaneous and artificial cures is 
rigidly required. 
ctu. The Arabian physicians, observing the 
general’ absence of re-action in tetanus, recom- 
mended the excitement of an artificial fever, but 
knew not how to effect it. Their proposal may 
or may not be successfully practised, but it is in 
perfect harmony with the aphorism of Hippocrates 
above quoted, who was little apprehensive of fever 
or inflammation in nervous diseases. ) 
