Analytic physiology : treating of the cure of nervous diseases, by external applications to the spine / by Samuel Hood.
- Hood, Samuel.
- Date:
- 1829
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Analytic physiology : treating of the cure of nervous diseases, by external applications to the spine / by Samuel Hood. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![gular, beating sixty-eight per minute, not full; there was a slight perspiration upon the face, but of a cold clammy nature. I judged from these symptoms, I had a case of tetanus to treat, and as I had been previously requested by Dr. S. Hood to try his method of cure, I was determined to put it in effect in the present instance. I imme- diately bled my patient to thirty ounces, and in one hour after, applied an eschar, of the size of a shilling, to the back part of the neck, rubbing the caustic until the part became blackish. I then left the vessel, after requesting, in the course of six or eight hours, they would send the boat for me to pay a second visit. 9,St]i July, 6 P.M.—Again saw my patient— spasms not abated, but rather increased, particu- larly the muscles of the arms and legs, which were so violently contracted, as to prevent the man from opening his fingers, or of bending his knees—pulse increased to eighty, with a slight degree of heat upon the body—belly hard and bound—two hours previous to my coming had vomited a little, but soon ceased—the muscles of the fauces affected so as to prevent swallowing—blooded to sixteen ounces, and applied a second eschar, the same size as the first, to the lower part of the loins. Wishing to see the effect the eschars might produce, I re- mained with my patient for three hours ; but the spasms still continuing, and being obliged to leave 2 c 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21059524_0223.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
