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wife exprefly afferts, that cold fometimes is the caufe 
of it, and in another part of his excellent work fays, 
“ that the greateft caution fhould be ufed to defend 
“ the patient from cold j and that therefore the fire 
“ in his room fhould be conftant.” He moreover 
recommends warm bathing both in v/ater and oil, as 
conducive to the cure of the difeafe. To thefe may 
be added the fentiments ofCaelius^ Aurelianus, who 
confiders that cold is frequently the caufe of this 
difeafe. He recommends various kinds of warm 
external applications ; fuch as warm bathing, rubbing 
the affedted parts with warm oil, the application of 
warm cataplafms, bags of heated bran, or linfeed. 
With Celfus, this author recommends, that attention 
be given to the warmth of the patient’s chamber. 
How far therefore, for the reafons and authorities 
before-mentioned, cold weather could probably af- 
fift in the cure of the cafe before us, need not in my 
opinion be infilled upon. 
And now, Gentlemen, permit me to make a few 
obfervations upon the difeafe itfelf, which, at lead: in 
the degree of the cafe before you, is a very rare one 
in temperate climates. In warmer countries, and 
efpecially between the tropics, it is too often feen. 
It was well known to the ancients. Hippocrates § 
calls it T iravog, and fays, that thofe who have it fe- 
verely, die on the fourth day ; if they furvive that day, 
they recover. He makes farther mention of it in 
other parts of his works more particularly in 
his book N ovrw, where he deferibes both the 
X De Morbis Acutis, Lib. III. Cap. vi. viii. 
§ Aphorifm, Lib. V. Se£I. vi. 
* Vide Lib. Ilfjd >cg»<r (pm — lief* ruv hlos 7 raQvv, & alibi. 
Tetanos 
