Analytic physiology : treating of the cure of nervous diseases, by external applications to the spine / by Samuel Hood.

  • Hood, Samuel.
Date:
1829
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    me that she had often heard her son say, that the treatment of tetanus recommended by me had been completely successful; and that Captain Jackson had instructed her second son, Richard, (also dead), who cured Captain Owen, of the ship Rathbone, belonging to Thomas Tobin, Esq., of Locked Jaw. This cure, performed under peculiar circumstances, procured to Mr. Jackson extensive practice while he remained on the African coast. Indian Cholera.—The last remedy suggested for this disease is oxygen gas. It is really to the credit of the Indian practitioners that they have not persisted in any one mode of treatment when found ineffectual, but have tried every thing which empiricism has recommended. I would most earnestly call the attention of the Company's three medical boards, to two physiological truths: viz. that without reaction, death must follow in a few hours ; and that the nervous system may be wound up to the healthy pitch, safely and simply, in Ague and Tetanus. Hydrophobia.—This disease having been called rabies canina, leads to the belief, that patients afflicted with it are always out of their reason, from the efforts to swallow producing convulsions of the Larynx and Pharynx. Dr. Cameron, of Liverpool, informs me, that he had a young and interesting female patient attacked by this disorder, who was' perfectly sensible of her situation throughout its