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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    awful malady, the first living one day, the second four days. Mrs. P. informed me she had no attending phy- sician ; that the baby thrived well until the fifth night, when it refused the breast and soon after- ward had a crying fit. She showed me how she sat up with it in bed, the occiput resting on her thigh. (About three years ago a fourth child was born. On meeting the mother a few months since, she thanked me for my suggestions and explanation of the disease, as she believed this last child was preserved on account of such knowledge.) Case XXXY.—Female child of B. T., colored (mother of seven children), born Jan. 13, 1879 ; taken sick fourth day, died in sixteen hours—re- fusal to nurse first symptom. I could not obtain an accurate history. There were inward spasms, however, and great rigidity, head burned up with fever. For an hour or more pressure on the occiput was probably accidentally relieved, as the child nursed once heartily, symptoms recurring after laying it down. Case XXXYI.—Infant of M. A. M., colored, per- fectly developed healthy female, born Jan. 8, died Jan,16,1879, after thirty-three hours' illness. Was well up to night of 15th, when the first thing no-