A treatise on tetanus : being the essay for which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1834, was awarded, by the Royal College of Surgeons, in London / by Thomas Blizard Curling.

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1836
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    pressor urethroc; whereas tliose muscles, whicli are uninfluenced by volition, appear to be exempt. § 2. Forms and varieties of the disease. Tetanus has been distinguished into two species, the idiopathic, including those cases where the disease appears to arise from some general cause, as exposure to damp or cold; and the traumatic or symptomatic, when it is a remote consequence of a local injury. A variety of the latter occurring in newly-born children is called Trismus, or Tetanus nascentium. A dis- tinction of more practical importance has been made into the acute and chronic forms, the symptoms of both being the same in kind but differing in degree and in the period of time which they take to run their course. Idiopathic Tetanus in this climate is usually chronic, rarely terminating fatally, and less active measures are necessary for subduing it. Traumatic Tetanus is most frequently acute, and, since the treatment of the acute disease, whether idiojmthic or symptomatic, should be guided by the same principles, and, as the remote cause and generally fatal result of the traumatic render it more interesting to the surgeon, my inquiries will be more particularly directed to this form of the disease. § 3. Symptoms. The symptoms of Tetanus, as manifested in a morbid action of the muscular system, have been distinguished by terms expressive of the posture or distortion of the body ])roduced. Thus trismus, from to gnash, inq)lies that the