A treatise on tetanus : being the essay for which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1834, was awarded, by the Royal College of Surgeons, in London / by Thomas Blizard Curling.

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1836
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    subdued, it may often be bigbly useful; but when the symptoms are urgent, to depend on a remedy t that is stated to require two or three days to exert its influence, cannot be viewed as a rational practice. When the carbonate of iron is employed, 1 believe itliat larger doses than one or two drachms are un- ' necessary. Hydrocyanic Acid. It appears, from recent investigations, that this acid acts on the brain and spinal marrow indepen- dently, its action on the latter causing spasms closely resembling those excited in Tetanus. Its effects, therefore, are obviously ill adapted to afford relief in ' this disease; nor do the few trials that have been ]made of it seem to have been attended with much ■success. The hydrocyanic acid was first recom- ; mended as a remedy in Tetanus, by Mr. H. Ward, I of Gloucester, who published some cases in which he ■supposed it to have been of service It was em- I ployed in small doses, in cases VIII. 13, and 89, all of which were fatal. In one of them, case VIII., which I occurred at the London Hospital, it can scarcely be ■said to have had a fair trial. The acid was given in doses of three minims every four hours, without pro- ducing the slightest effect; but the original injury 'was so severe, a compound dislocation of the astra- - Observations on Tetanus. Gloucester, 1825.