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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    and severe, do not usually recur in such violent paroxysms as in proper traumatic Tetanus. In some few instances blood has been found extra- vasated within the spinal sheath. This was noticed in a case of idiopathic Tetanus recorded by Dr. Funk. The effusion extended from the first dorsal vertebra to the lower part of the canal, being greatest in the lumbar reoion. It is stated, that the surface of the cord was rose red—the origins of the nerves swelled —and the cauda equina much reddened. In another case, of traumatic Tetanus in a female, mentioned by the same author, a similar appearance was ob- served \ Other morbid changes, of an anomalous character, have been discovered on dissection, the causes of which, as well as their connection with the disease under consideration,, are far less obvious than those already described. In a child, aged between 3 and 4 years, who died in the Hopital des Enfans Trouves at Paris, with symptoms of opisthotonos trismus, diffi- cult deglutition, and coma, Ollivier discovered depo- sition of a red and very consistent fluid in the cellular texture between the dura mater of the cord and the bony canal of the spine in the dorsal region, serous effusion within the membranes and the arach- noid of the medulla, covered with an albuminous concretion for four inches Burserius relates the ' Lib. cit. p. HO. * liib. cit. vol. ii. p. 585.