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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    corded, as a case of “ horrible tetanus,” an instance evidently of inflammation about the spinal cord, in- duced by a blow upon the spine, but he gives no account of the appearances on dissection.—The fol- lowing is a case recorded by Dr. Michael Funk. Case.—A man, aged 36, received a wound from a horse’s foot upon the left temple. Three days after, he had slight symptoms of trismus and fever, with constipation, which were shortly followed by com- plete opisthotonos, and seven days after receiving the wound he died. He had been bled to two pounds, and the blood had the bufly coat. Inspection.—A small quantity of serum escaped from the dura mater when divided. There was a light-coloured extrava- sation on the cord, and its vessels were very much injected. “ This inflammation extended to the me- dulla oblongata;” it was most considerable in the region of the neck. Substance of the cord red, its cut surface presenting a good many bloody points; vessels of the brain enlarged, “ though not to such a degree that one could pronounce it inflammation b” In further confirmation of these views, as to the distinct character of inflammatory Tetanus, or rather of inflammation in the spinal cord accompanied with tetanic contractions in the muscles, two cases are selected, which have been published as examples of the idiopathic form of this disease. ‘ Reports of Cases, translated from an inaugural dissertation in German, by Mr. Adams.—Glasgow Medical Journal, vol. iii. p. 141.