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* Tetancs and Opijlhotonos. In this part of his work, 
inftead of the fourth, he mentions once, and repeats 
it, that if they live beyond the fourteenth day, they 
recover. Left it fnould appear, that the father of 
the medical art feems to contradict himfelf, it may 
not be improper to remark, that when he fays, that 
the Tetanos is mortal in a very few days, he moft 
generally means thofe which are fymptomatic, and 
are attendant upon wounds, luxations, and bruifes ; 
fuch as the three inftances mentioned in his Epidemics. 
Thofe affeCted with this difeafe, mentioned by Hip- 
pocrates in his book rW/ K t/tri'pcw, are exprefly faid 
to arife from wounds. Thei'e were foon mortal. 
But where thefe difeafes took their rife from other 
caufes ; they were lefs violent, continued longer, and 
the expectation of recovery was greater. In his book 
therefore, Tle^J r tvT&'sraOuv, when treating of the 
Opijlhotonos , attendant upon a fever, inflammation of 
the throat, or other internal diforders, he fays, that 
if they live beyond the fortieth day, they recover. 
Aretseus *, under the fame appellation with Hip- 
pocrates, has given us an excellent hiftory and re- 
marks upon this difeafe, as well as upon the Opijlho- 
tonos , and Emproflhotonos , which are nearly related to 
it ; or, to fpeak more properly, the fame difeafe affeCt- 
ing different mufcles, and throwing the body into 
different kinds of diftortion. Celfus -f- has mentioned 
and defcribed this difeafe, to which no name was 
affigned by his countrymen, and has called it “ Qui- 
“ dam nervorum rigor.” Tho’ this excellent author 
reckons it among the difeafes of the neck, the parts 
* Morb. Acut. Lib. I. Cap. vi. 
t Lib. IV. Cap. iii. 
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