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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. In composing this Essay on a disease which has so frequently resisted the most powerful means that our art possesses, and in regard to'the treatment of which so much difference of opinion exists, I have constantly kept in mind the instruction of the Jack- sonian Committee, that the “ number and importance of facts will be considered principal points of excel- lence.” For in the study of a disease, the nature of which is as yet involved in obscurity, it is only by collecting and comparing facts that such legitimate deductions can be formed as will guide us to a know- ledge of those principles by which its treatment should be regulated. I have also endeavoured to obtain from amongst the discrepant statements and conflicting opinions of different writers, those con- clusions which their collective experience would ap- ])ear to justify, and from amidst a host of remedies