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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    tion's West, who says that the disease may come on within twelve hours from birth. , It is worthy of remark, he concludes, that Prof. Harrison, of New Orleans, detected the dis- ]Dlacement of the occipital bone and attempted its restoration fifteen months before the publica- tion of Dr. Sims's first paper. On page 203 of the same volume. Dr. Sutton de- tails a case that came under his notice since writ- ing the foregoing. His conclusions are that the child was born trismal, and that the disease was brought on by iDressure from the occipital bone. He had employed Dr. Harrison's x^lan to elevate the bone, but without success, as it would slip and occupy its former place, and nothing but temporary relief was granted. J. Harrison F.R.C.S. {Brit Med. Jour, i., 1860) agrees with Dr. Colles, but does not say that tris- mus is the only disease that may arise from a fes- tering navel, as is shown in the following case: '' The child had a grievous look, sunken, clearly from grave mischief ; the umbilicus was festering, abdomen distended and hard. At the post mor- tem the umbilicus was red and prominent; there was universal peritonitis, and the liver was whol- ly covered by false membrane. In this case there were no sym]3toms of trismus.