The lock-jaw of infants (trismus nascentium) or nine day fits, crying spasms, etc ; its history, cause, prevention and cure / by J. F. Hartigan.

  • Hartigan, James French, -1894.
Date:
1884
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Credit: The lock-jaw of infants (trismus nascentium) or nine day fits, crying spasms, etc ; its history, cause, prevention and cure / by J. F. Hartigan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Autopsy showed marked congestion of pia ma- ter, and clots in posterior fossa, and cerebellum. Cord lined with coagula. Other organs healthy. Case XVI.—Female infant of M. D., colored, born N'ov. 22, died Nov. 28, 1879. Was seized on the fifth day, sick twenty-four hours. Autopsy sixty hours after death. Soreness of umbilicus, which was confined to surface. Spinal canal lined with coagula, and a few clots on posterior lobes of cerebrum and cerebellum. Other organs healthy. Case XYII.—Infant of M. G-., colored female, seven days old, died Jan. 14, 1880, twenty-four hours from seizure. Usual history. Autopsy in sixteen hours. Hypostatic congestion of pos- terior portion of lungs. Pia mater of brain intensely injected, with a few hsemorrhagic spots. Spinal canal lined with coagula. Case XYIII.—Infant of P. W., colored female, died January 26, five days old, sick twenty-eight hours. First symi)tom, refusal to nurse. Exten- sive clots in brain and spinal canal. Case XIX.—Infant of J. S. T., colored female, six days old, died January 28, 1880, thirty-three hours from seizure. Symptoms and post mortem appearances same as preceding. Case XX.—Female infant of M. J., colored,