848 On the preparations of the Indian Hemp, or Gunjah. [Oct. 



Third case. — Huroo, a female, set : 25, admitted to the Native 

 Hospital on IGth December, had tetanus for the three previous days, 

 the sequel of a cut on the left elbow received a fortnight before. 

 Symptoms violent on admission. Turpentine and castor oil given 

 repeatedly without eifeet ; on the 16th and 17th, three grains of Hemp 

 resin were given at bed-time. On the morning of the 18th she was 

 found in a state of complete catalepsy, and remained so until evening, 

 when she became sensible, and a tetanic paroxysm recurred. Hemp 

 resumed, and continued in two grain doses every fourth hour. From 

 this time till the third hour tetanic symptoms returned. She subse- 

 quently took a grain twice daily till the 8th of February, when she 

 left the Hospital apparently quite well. 



Mr. O'Brien has since used the Hemp resin in five cases, of which 

 four were admitted in a perfectly hopeless state. He employed the 

 remedy in ten grain doses dissolved in spirit. The effect he des- 

 cribes as almost immediate relaxation of the muscles and interruption 

 of the convulsive tendency. Of Mr. O'Brien's seven cases, four have 

 recovered. 



In the Police Hospital of Calcutta, the late Dr. Bain has used the 

 remedy in three cases of traumatic tetanus, of these one has died 

 and two recovered. 



A very remarkable case has recently occurred in the practice of my 

 cousin, Mr. Richard O'Shaughnessy. The patient was a Jew, set: j 

 30, attacked with tetanus during the progress of a sloughing sore of 

 the scrotum, the sequel of a neglected hydrocele. Three grain doses 

 were used every second hour, with the effect of inducing intoxication 

 and suspending the symptoms. The patient has recovered perfectly, 

 and now enjoys excellent health. 



Besides the preceding cases I have heard of two of puerperal 

 trismus thus treated in native females. Both terminated fatally, 

 an event, which cannot discredit the remedy, when it is remember- 

 ed that the Hindoo native females of all ranks are placed during 

 and subsequent to their confinement in a cell within which large 

 logs of wood are kept constantly ignited. The temperature of these 

 dens I have found to exceed 120° of Fahrenheit's scale. 



The preceding facts are offered to the professional reader with un- 

 feigned diffidence, as to the inferences I feel disposed to derive from 

 their consideration. To me they seem unequivocally to shew, that 

 when given boldly and in large doses, the resin of Hemp is capable of 



