Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de tetano : quam annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate dignissimi Vice-Cancellarii Archibaldi Davidson ... ; nec non aplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto ; pro gradu doctoris ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Samuel Thomas, A.B. ... ; as diem XXVi Februarii, hora loocoque solitis.

Thomas, Samuel, M.D.

Date:: 1801

Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de tetano : quam annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate dignissimi Vice-Cancellarii Archibaldi Davidson ... ; nec non aplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto ; pro gradu doctoris ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Samuel Thomas, A.B. ... ; as diem XXVi Februarii, hora loocoque solitis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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jihora pedibus admota spasmos prorsus sustulerunt. Sublata applicatione, spasmi priori violentia recruduerunt, eidem- que iterum applicata: cesserunt*. Balneum tepidum quoque laudatum est, sed cum adhibea- tur tale remedium, omnis non necessaria corporis agitatio evitanda est: inde enim spasmi excitari periclitantur. Ne- que invito aegro adhibendum; namque quidam homines na- si tura sua aquam formidant. / Ab incauto balnei usu quoque cavere monemur exempli morbi eventu infelici a Doctore Chalmers traftati, qui sum- : mo candore casum enarrare non dubitavit. Ejus verba ci- tare mihi liceat. “ Against so undistinguished an use of “ warm bathing in tetanic disorders, I have been vvarned, by j “ the sudden death of one of my patients; who, I insisted, “ should be put into the water, in spite of the great aversion | “ he expressed to the contrary, for no arguments that were “ used for dispelling his apprehensions of danger, availed. r' “ The consequence was, that exerting his utmost efforts to “ resist those who took him up, a general convulsion was “ excited, and deprived him of life in an instant of time, :j “ even before he touched the waterf.” In his exemplis pediluvium, fomentaque adhibenda. Doc- j tor Stiitz, qui in Suabia medicinam facit, morbo. Balnei i tepidi kali et paucis calcis vivae unciis saturati, usu, mederi f; affirmatus est: interne quoque kali grana decem, et opii unum, secunda quqaue hora, administravit. Pleniorem hujus medendi methodi historiam nobis expec- i tandum m libro ejus, (cui nomen est, “ Miscellaneous Me- * Vide Lind on Diseases of Hot Climates, &c. p. 269, 270. t Vide Chalmers on the Diseases of South Carolina, vol. 2. p. 29. c

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