Volume 1

A guide to health : being cautions and directions in the treatment of diseases. Designed chiefly for the use of students / by Joseph Townsend ...

Date:
1795-1796
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Credit: A guide to health : being cautions and directions in the treatment of diseases. Designed chiefly for the use of students / by Joseph Townsend ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    SECTION II. OF THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF TETANUS. This, agreeable to Hoffman, is, violent con- traction of the membranes furrounding the fpinal marrow and the nerves proceeding from it, which caufes impetuous influx of the nervous fluid into the affected mufcles. The convulfive irritation, according to him, may be induced two ways : for either the membranes of the fpinal marrow, being directly irritated, are con- vulfed themfelves, and draw into confent (in hanc convulfionem Jocietatem) other parts connected with them or, fome of thefe parts, being firft fpafmo- dically affected, communicate ftricture to the fpinal marrow, from which it extends by confent to other parts, between which there is no evident connection, unlefs through the medium of the brain. Hence he would diflinguifh two fpecies of con- vulfive motion, idiopathic and fympathetic. B b VOL. I.