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poi Toned by taking the Oemnthe aquatic a fucco virofo 
crocante of Lobel ; and of which, two communica- 
tions of mine occur in the Philofophical Tranf- 
adtions. 
I muft here remark, that in the true Tetanus, 
the arms, when rigid, are straight, and extended 
along the trunk; the legs and thighs are likewife 
ftraight; but the cafe before you, in fome degree, 
partook of the Opifthotonus, efpecially in the lower 
parts ; as the fpine was remarkably curved, and as 
the legs were pulled up towards the thighs. 
The Tetanus I now lay before you, was an origi- 
nal difeafe ; as there had been no wound, no eruption 
fupprefied, nor other caufe, which, we imagined, 
could occafion it. A cafe of a fimilar kind, as an 
original difeafe, occurs in Dr. * Storck’s Biermium 
Medicum. And the Emprofthotonus, mentioned by 
the ingenious Dr. Macaulay, in the fecond volume 
of the Medical Obfervations, lately publifhed, Teems 
to have been likewife an original difeafe, and not a 
fymptom of any other. As the cafe I now commu- 
nicate is a very fingular one, at leaft in Great Bri- 
tain, and the treatment of it not lefs fingular, though 
attended with all pofiible fuccefs, I had reafon to hope 
that you would not be difpleafed to have it laid be- 
fore you, in a manner fomewhat circumftantial. I 
am firmly of opinion, if the epilepfy had left this 
patient, and life had continued, that the would have 
remained a moft miferably helplefs objedt, and as 
confirmed a cripple as can be imagined. 
At prefent the patient is well ; but if, contrary to 
* Part I. Pag. 6. 
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expectation. 
