On the nature and treatment of tetanus & hydrophobia : with some observations on a natural classification of diseases in general / by Robert Reid, M.D.
- Reid, Robert
- Date:
- 1817
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the nature and treatment of tetanus & hydrophobia : with some observations on a natural classification of diseases in general / by Robert Reid, M.D. 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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![] 20 Blood-letting has frequently been employ- ee!, as a remedy ; but in no one instance is it asserted to have been attended with any advantage. As the disease is not seated in the blood, this operation could not diminish the quantity or force of the poison. When animals are killed by the loss of blood, it is known that the most violent convulsive spasms always occur for some time before life is totally extinct. Any person who has witnessed the effects of this remedy, in Hydrophobia, must re- member that the convulsive affections always increased in proportion as the quantity of blood ^vas abstracted. The reason of this must be obvious from what has been al- ready said. It is evident, that venesection should never be employed, in the treatment of this disease. I have thus slightly noticed these remedies, as it usually happens that the cure is confined](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2107401x_0130.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
