Facts establishing the efficacy of the opiate friction in spasmodic and febrile diseases. Also, outlines of an attempt to investigate the nature, causes, and method of cure, of hydrophobia and tetanus ... To which are added, cases and remarks / [Michael Ward].

  • Ward, Michael, active 1809.
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[1809]
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Credit: Facts establishing the efficacy of the opiate friction in spasmodic and febrile diseases. Also, outlines of an attempt to investigate the nature, causes, and method of cure, of hydrophobia and tetanus ... To which are added, cases and remarks / [Michael Ward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    exert its influence principally if not entirely upon the nervous system; though the size, situation, and depth of the wound, and the violence used in inflicting it, causing the skin and muscles to be more or less lacerated, seem to have some effect both in producing the disease, and in de- termining the duration of the interval between the bite and the accession of the disease. A 9 good deal may also depend on the nervous sys- tem of the patient being more or less irritable. What is the precise state of the inoculated part in the interval between the healing of the wound and the coming on of the hydrophobia; and how the poison operates in producing those changes in it Which immediately precede the disease, are points which have not been ex- plained ; but I hope to be excused if I say, I do not consider them altogether inexplicable.* X. At the same time that certain parts of the system are affected as described in VI, VII, there is a deficiency of the nervous or senso- rial power in the involuntary muscles, which is in proportion to the exuberance in the voluntary: hence the vital and natural functions are carried on in a weak and inefficient manner, from the sensibility, irritability, and mobility ; or in one word, the contractility of the parts employed in [* The consideration of these points is deferred to a more convenient opportunity.]