CURE FOR LOCKJAW.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8741, 15 February 1907, Page 1

CURE FOR LOCKJAW.

American physicans believe that they have cured a case of lockjaw, by heroic and unprecedented methods. Richard Miller, a carpenter, ran a nail into one of his feet ten weeks ago. Within eight days his jaws were locked and he became unconscious. After antitoxin had been administered, and the wound in his foot excised, the patient became worse. It was a very bad ease 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. Garvin, head surgeon of St. John’s Hospital, Long Island City, took a pint and ahalf of blood from Miller’s left arm.

i Belief came, and to this heroic method, which, it is suggested here, may lead to a revolution in lookjay treatment, the physicans believe iW (man owes his life. Eecoyery was | only very gradual, and for sis weeks j Miller was terribly 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.

I Then periods of consciousness | came, and one day he 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 tile hospital perfectly cured, says the London Daily Telegraph, and Dr. Garvin has been invited, to read a paper on the ease before the Now York Medical Association.