Cure for Lock-Jaw.
M. Roux, of the Pasteur Institute (according to the Paris correspondent of the London ‘Daily Telegraph’; has made the important announcement that he and his colleagues have discovered a real and efficient cure for tetanus, or lock-jaw. The Germans, it appears, have already used a serum for subcutaneous injections in cases of lockjaw, but no beneficial results were •obtained by the treatment. ’ M. Roux came to the conclusion that the • antitetanic stuff should bo injected into the brain, under the membranes, so as to reach the seat of the malady. Experiment! were tried on animals with remarkable success, and M Roux then entered in o communication with the leading, medical men of Paris and conferred with them on the advisability of trying the effect of the serum on a patient. A man afflicted with tetanus was accordingly trepanned on April 26 last. Dr JQuenu perfoimtd the opera io i of trepanning, and M. Roux then made an intracerebral injection of the serum' which he hid prepared. The patient is now as well aspossible. A full communication on the matter will be made, as usual, to the Academy of Medicine.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2122, 30 June 1898, Page 3
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192Cure for Lock-Jaw. Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2122, 30 June 1898, Page 3
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