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Teta^s, in which Recovery took place. By Patrick NewbigttiarriH?"^le suKiect ?f this case was a baker in the Grassmarket, aged 28, I844 >1 so^er industrious habits. On the morning of the lGth February si0u len engaged with his usual occupation in the bakehouse, he had occafySe 0 &? out into the intensely cold air, to chop wood, while in a state of prot^er-S^lra^on.' evening he complained of stiffness about the angles almost ^aw? which gradually increased till the 19th, when the jaw became canie a?ornPletely locked. Afterwards, the different muscles of the body becipai f ected. The duration of the case was about three months. The prinsfration p160*' consisted in the free use of morphia, and the occasional adminiadmini*t . ^r?*'0n-0^' ^or althou&h arsenic, Indian hemp, colchicum, &c. were Np? ?? .at different periods, no decided benefit was ascribed to them by "William *?or the late Dr Abercrombie, Sir George Ballingall, Sir time, 'pi '^oingj and Dr Duncan, who also saw the patient from time to ?nc 'point16 autll0F conciuded his communication by remarking, that " there is *orpid st' t?U authorities on idiopathic tetanus seem to agree,?the this conriv ^le ^ntestines, and the offensive nature of their contents; and Payment "p11 ls, worthy of attention, showing how important must be the em"istorv nf fi W selected purgative medicines in such cases." [The complete the JVnni Sase has been published by the author, in the March Number of iZ j V'nJmrnai 0f Medicine.-] been abin V J)ertson regretted that tobacco was not more employed. It had but jle 0Iie~ to a great extent, probably from the uncertainty ot its action; which it U