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.

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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    days after it is entirely liealed. This is not sur- prising when it is compared with several instances upon record of tetanns in adults, taking place long after the wound is cicatrized. When the disease appears two or three weeks after birth, it is much slower in its progress to death. In the Dublin Hos]p. Rejports^ Vol. i., 1818, A. Colles, M.D., gives the results of twenty-five dissections, based upon a full belief in the um- bilical theory, as follows : '' The skin forming the edges of umbilical fossa was in some a little raised. On expanding with forceps, the floor of this cavity was in the centre, raised knob shape. A probe readily passed through it, entering the umbilical vein, the ]3ei'itoneum covering which was highly vascular, sometimes up to the fissure of the liver. The peritoneum covering the arte- ries was still more inflamed, and extended often up to the bladder. The vein, on being cut open, contained only a few small coagula; its inner surface was pale and free from inflammation, although the coats were much thickened. The arteries contained a thick, yellow, fluid-like lymph, and their coats were thick and hard also. The peritoneal surface of umbilicus showed a soft, yellow substance in the centre, resembling coagulable lymj)h, which formed the prominence