THE MOUSE CURE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2226, 6 May 1880, Page 2

THE MOUSE CURE.

Hitherto (says the “ Monthly Homoeopath io Peview”) there has been no remedy which could bo regarded as specific for tetanus. At last, however, an ingenious French physician has apparently hit upon a remedy before which tetanus yields as readily as toothache yields to the dentist’s forceps, and which will, of course, supersede curare and all other inferior remedies. The French doctor in question was called in to attend a lady suffering from tetanus. In his report he says that she was a married woman of 31 years of age, and that previous to his visit her famity physician had tried every known remedy for tetanus, including curare, without producing any effect. The patient was lying on her back, with her jaws tightly closed, and the muscles of her chest and throat were so rigid that she was unable to utter a sound. The doctor at once went out and procured a live mouse of unusual size and voracity, to the tail of which he attached a strong horsehair. Placing the mouse at the foot of the bed, he permitted it to walk the entire length of the patient’s body. No sooner did the patient notice the mouse than she sprang up, loudly calling to the attendants to take it oil, and denouncing the doctor as a horrid heartless wretch, who ought to be ashamed of himself and guillotined on the spot. There was no recurrence of the symptoms of tetanus. In fact, the doctor adds that the lady’s jaws were so thoroughly and permanently unlocked that the husband, who is, of course, ignorant of law, has threatened to begin an action for damages against him.