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Show 246 APPENDIX. APPENDIX. 247 3 child, that has the habit of sleeping on its face with the arm particularly disposed about the head. The mother has just "let, heat 98, rather better-"Pulse 85, the same habit. since the 18th inclusive. He takes tinct. opii gutt, xx. can granis v. pulv. antim. This appears to be a transmitted anl not an imitative peculiarity, because the child was nursed by the mother only for the first two or three weeks : and then they never slept together; and after this, the child for a consider- able period, during which the habit was gradually formed, lay in the same room with nurses who slept in a different posture. So that the disposition was counteracted. Moral resemblances are observable where a parent has died before or soon after the birth of the child. Both dispositions, however, are easily, in most cases, superseded, and particularly the moral, in the human species. 22nd, heat 97%. pulse 90---has sweated profusely these five days-that is quartis horis. Subsists entirely upon broths and gruel-From the 22d to this day (the 29th) inclusive, the sweating gradually lessened-pulse varied from 74 to 86 »- the heat continuing with trifling variation at about QJ-he is new considerably better, can open his mouth full half an inch. and most probably will recover. P. 84. Convulsimzs artificially excited infever. Dr. Stuart of Philadelphia after bleeding a robust young woman to 70 or 80 ounces, giving 100 grains of calome‘, and rubbing in 12 oz. of mercurial ointment, found his patient ero- P. 84. Fel‘rile tetanm. Cases stand recorded on authority, tremely feeble. Her pulse scarcely sensible in the arm, difficult to resist, where tetanus, not occurring as a symptom though the strokes of the heart and carotid arteries were visiofidiopathic fever, has been accompanied by increase of heat, ble under the bed-clothes. as distinct to the touch as fever itself. Fearful of drawing more blood, Great thirst, highhe tied a ligature on both fore~arms, just tight enough to corn. coloured urine, and the whole state usually expressed by the term/feverish were at the same time observed. The patients recovered on ample and repeated blood letting-It would therefore be a conclusion not less vicious with regard to tetanus than to fever that the large exhibition of wine, as prac- ticed by r. iush and confirmed by Dr. Currie, is universally expedient. I see that Portal (Anatomic Merl. 1803, iv. 269) mentions a young man, who died of tetanus on the 4th day after a very slight wound in the back. press the veins but not the arteries. The veins took fifteen minutes to become turgid. Then the fingers became " riolently contracted by convulsive spasms. The wrists were soon drawn into consent and the patient complained that they were much affected wtth pain."---The ligatures being relaxed, in ten minutes the spasms were relaxed also---"' In ten minutes I could now with the greatest ease and certainty relax and convulse the. fingers at pleasure. This was continued for nearly two hours." (Core. rift/scum, I. adj-A debilitated person was vainly treated for tremors and palsy of his hands Much bloody liquid in the lateral with tonics. ventricles of the brain. The turgid blood-vessels, which laylilte cords No lesion in the cavity of the spine. .--.\lr. R. Smith has communicated the following farther ob- on both the arms and hands, led Dr. Solbrig to the idea of drawing otf some blood, as it seemed that the vessels could servation : not propel it. " Scarce," says he, " had time ounces flowed John Doring, aged 13, labouring under tetanus from a wound of the foot.-Sept. 17th, midday, heat 91. 18th; ditto, ditto.--19th, ditto, ditto-20th, heat 97, rather better. 'let, out, when the hand grew steady, while the other went on tre nhlingn-l had a vein in the other arm opened, and now the |