(FROM APRIL, 1888, TO MARCH, 1889, INCLUSIVE.) RY ASS LIBRARY LANDON B. EDWARDS, M. D.. Secretary of the Medical Society of Virginia since its Organization in 1870, Etc., EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. EDO UT PROSSIM. RICHMOND: J. W. FERGUSSON & SON, PRINTERS. 1889. ART. I.-Morphinic and True Tetanus-their Etiology.* By C. W. P. BROCK, M. D., Richmond, Va. The harrowing symptoms of tetanus, with its agonizing sufferings, and the horrible death of the patient are as familiar to each of you as to me. I only propose to call your attention to some of the more recent observations as to the causes of this malady, both predisposing and exciting, and particularly to the effects of opium as a predisposing cause. I shall say nothing regarding the post-mortem appearances, for they are by no means always the same; and the parallelism between them and the post-mortem appearances, in the morphomaniac are, for the most part, wanting, and therefore not to my purpose in this paper. Nor will I have anything to say in regard to the nature and site of injuries that are apt to be followed by tetanus according to the books. At a meeting of our Society held in January, 1888, I reported a death from tetanus in a morphomaniac who was in *Read before Richmond Medical and Surgical Society, Feb. 23, 1888. |