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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    Dr. Hervieux {Gaz. des Hop. 1862) reports two cases : In the first, autoj)sy showed engorgement of cerebral pia mater and arachnoid ; congestion of substance of the brain, cord and cerebellum, black coagulated blood in choroid j)lexus, brain softened ; spinal arachnoid contained bloody fluid, cord softened throughout. 2nd Case. Besides the condition found in the first, there was exudation in occipital fossa, and spinal arachnoid. JSTo disease of umbilicus or other organs. Meningeal apoplexy of spinal cord is, he says, the nearly constant lesion, and the most probable cause is cold. M. LeBarillier, {Jour, de Med. DeBordeaux May, 1863) recognizes eclampsia as different from trismus, and neither like tetanus of the adult. He details an autopsy as follows : '' ISTo trace of in- flammation of umbilical cord ; rigidity slight; face bluish, and ecchymosed patches over chest and ab- domen. The condition of brain and cord ac- corded with a]3pearances described by Thore and Hervieux. A post mortem by Dr. G. Dowell {Amer. Jour. Med. JScL, vol. xlv., 1863) showed, ''Umbilicus healed, but there was dark blood in the umbilical vein, and a yellowness around the navel; liver congested, and gall bladder filled. He thinks