A REMARKABLE CURE OF LOCKJAW.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8780, 11 June 1907, Page 5

A REMARKABLE CURE OF LOCKJAW.

American physicians (sajs the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) believe that they have cured a case of lockjaw, by heroic am] tmprecemlented methods. Richard Miller, a carpeuter, ran a nail into one of his feet ten weeks ago. Within eight days his jaws were locked, and lie became unconscious. After anti-toxin had been administered, and the wound in his foos excised, the patient became still worse. It was a very bad case of tetanus, and the doctors abandoned hope. Convulsions racked the man's frame. In desperation, and as a last resort, to give some relief to the tension on the heart and brain and internal organs, Dr J. B. G-arvin, head surgeon at St. John's Hospital, Long Island City took a pint and a half of blood from Miller's left arm. Relief came, and to this heroic method, which, it is suggested here, may lead to a revolution in lockjaw treatment, the physicians believe the man owes his life. Recovery was only very gradual, and for six weeks Miller was very weak, and during part of -the time his body was bent backward like a bow only his heels and the back of his head touching the bed. The periods of consciousness came, and one day ha was found semi-conscious, his jaws relaxed, and gnawing at the sheet, as if to exercise the muscles which had long remained unused. Now Miller is out of the hospital, perfectly cured, and Dr Garviu has been invited to read a paper on the case before the New York Medical Association.