Case of Tetanus Infantum

A Case of Tetanus

People in Upper Sind are generally accustomed to mix clay with water and common salt and apply it to boils and abscesses, in order that they may burst open ; very often they repeat the process even after the abscess has opened. The tetanus case which came under my notice and still remains under my treatment had its origin in this peculiar use of earth. It may, however, be noticed that in spite ...

A Case of Tetanus

A Case of Tetanus

A Case of Tetanus

ances noted above were all exaggerated; such spasms, however, often came on at short intervals without any visible disturbing cause. The patient's body was covered with perspiration and the temperature was normal. The bowels were, as a rule, constipated, and there was also some difficulty in passing urine voluntarily. The patient could speak but very indistinctly ; she was however quite rationa...

A Case of Tetanus

hospital on the 16th June 1910, suffering from a punctured wound situated near the vertebral border of the right scapula and which he states was caused by the fall of a pickaxe. The examination of the wound showed that it was stuffed with some black substance (called, I believe, by the natives Missee, a preparation of ferrum galls, etc.). The margins of the wound were inflamed and unhealthy loo...