REMARLABLE CURE OF LOCKJAW.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43107, 20 June 1907, Page 4

REMARLABLE CURE OF LOCKJAW.

American physicians (says the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) 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 anti-toxin had been administered, and the wound in his foot excised, the patient became still worse. It was a very bad case of tentanus, and the dootors abandoned hope. Convulsions 1 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. R. Garvin, 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 1 , 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 hi® body was bent backward like a bow only his 'heels and the hack of his head touching! the bed. The periods of consciousness came, and one day he Was found semi-conscious, hi® 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 Garvin has been invited to read a paper on the case before the New York Medical Association!