Suggestions for the treatment and management of tetanus, or lockjaw / [Henry Jenner].

  • Jenner, Henry, 1766?-1851.
Date:
[1845]
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Credit: Suggestions for the treatment and management of tetanus, or lockjaw / [Henry Jenner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUGGESTIONS EOH THE TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF TETANUS, OR LOCKJAW; By HENRY JENNER, M. D. F. L. S. &c. &c. &,c. '^nec teraere nec timide’* When I reflect on the alarming, and in most cases the fatal termination of Tetanus or Locked-Jaw, 1 am induced to offer the following observa¬ tions, with a hope that the treatment I recommend, may relieve the suf¬ ferings and eradicate from the constitution the seeds of that afflictive and most dangerous disease. Various methods of cure have been resorted to by medical gentlemen who rank high in their profession, but their efforts to arrest and stop the progress of the disease, have almost universally proved abortive. With due and general deference to their abilities, I beg to recommend the trial of a mode of treatment, which I venture to do with much confidence, though no opportunity has presented itself since I first gave the disease of Tetanus my serious and particular consideration, of testing my theory by practice. From the various descriptions given me of cases of Tetanus, the authentic reports published of the almost ever-fatal termination of the disease, and the unsuccessful efforts made use of to relieve the sufferings of the patient, I would strongly recommend with some degree of flat¬ tering expectation, that to prevent its fatal results may not only prove possible but even probable, and often restore the afflicted persons, and prevent their becoming victims to premature death. It was affirmed by that great professional luminary John Hunter, (with whom I for some length of time resided, and was his pupil,) and experience will confirm the correctness of his statement, that two dis¬ tinct diseases cannot co-exist or go forwards in the same person at one