Case of Tetanus Successfully Treated

A Case of Tetanus Successfully Treated

An Eurasian boy, aged 13 years, of good constitution and active habits, but " dull of apprehension" by his teacher's account, was admitted into hospital on the 21st October 1874. History.? Says that his teacher was in the habit of frequently caning him over the right hand, and three days previous to his coming to hospital, the fingers of the same hand became stiff and numb, and he had also slig...

A Case of Tramnatic Tetanus, Successfully Treated by Hydrate of Chloral

8tli January 1872.?Brojo, Hindu male, a student, agtd 19, met with a railway accident twenty days before coming to the hospital. His right foot wns run over by the wheels. Tetanic symptoms commenced about six days before admission. The fits are mild in character, and not very long in duration. The tendency of the body during a fit is opisthotonio. OrderedExt. cannabis indicse gr. j. every hour ...

A Case of Idiopathic Tetanus, Successfully Treated with Tincture of Aconite

A faiii delicate girl, named Soornum, aged eleven years, of the Culla caste, and of nervo-bilious temperament, was brought to the hospital from Mailnuttum, a village ten miles south of the station, on the evening of the 29th June, 1866, about five o'clock. The following symptoms were present, on admission: stiffness of the muscles of the neck and of jaw ; pain in the throat, with difficulty of ...

A Case of Tetanus, Treated with Tetanus Antitoxine: Recovery

The patient was a male, aged 25, well developed and well nourished. The illness began six days before admission into the J. J. Hospital, with severe headache, and attacks of pain and rigidity of the muscles of the neck and jaw. On the following day the rigidity increased in the muscles at the back ot the neck, and appeared in the anterior abdominal muscles. He was then compelled to take to his ...

A Case of Tetanus Treated by Chloretone