The lock-jaw of infants (trismus nascentium) or nine day fits, crying spasms, etc ; its history, cause, prevention and cure / by J. F. Hartigan.

  • Hartigan, James French, -1894.
Date:
1884
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Credit: The lock-jaw of infants (trismus nascentium) or nine day fits, crying spasms, etc ; its history, cause, prevention and cure / by J. F. Hartigan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    extensive practitioners is that they have never known a case to recover. In my experience of twenty years' ]3ractice in Georgia and Florida, with a single exception, not one recovered. In his treatise on this disease, Dr. I. M. Wat- son, of Nashville, says : '' This great outlet of in- fantile life, has not received that notice and in- vestigation from our best writers, which its great importance so justly merits. All that has been published about it, is well calculated to embar- rass. In reply to Dr. Cullen, who says : It is a dis- ease that has been almost constantly fatal, com- monly in the course of a few days; the women are «o much persuaded of its inevitable fatality, that they seldom or ever call for the assistance of our art, Dr. Watson remarks, '' But this is not the secret; ]3hysicians had seen the disease, but did not understand it; they had treated it, but had not cured it; had sought out its cause and pathology, but had not found them. Drs. T. C. Black, Rush, Fourcroy, Valentine, Dacille, Campet, Lindsay, J. S. Bailey, West, Goelis, and a host of others, say it is always fatal. Dr. J. Bierbaun remarks, In no other condi- tion have we the same train of symptoms. Dur- ing the prodroma there is more chance of cure