CUBE FOE LOCKJAW.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3666, 25 September 1880, Page 3

CUBE FOE LOCKJAW.

A writer to a Dunedin contemporary, signing himself "J. Neill," recommends the following cure in cases of lockjaw : — "To the Editor.-—Sir,—l am sorry to ' learn that another victim has fallen to this dreadful disease. Within a few years this makes five fatal cases in Dunedin. It seems that the doctors have no remedy for it, but it would be more honest on their part to admit this and not experiment till the breath is out of ones body. Be it known to the doctors and al! that there is a simple and certain remedy for lockjaw which has been tried many times, and notonce known to fail. Br Coffin in hit celebrated ' Botanic Guide to Health? (about 60,000 copies of which have been printed and sold) gives the following case, which fully illustrates the cause and cure : -—' A Mrs- Vinton, while cutting a frozen cabbage, let-tbe knife slip and severed the tendons ortWo'|in|er» on the left hand. . The hand and ami soon swelled and became rigid. A doctor was called, and attended her four days, when lock jaw set ; in.. Tbe.doetor then declared he could do no more for her. Her husband then asked him if be would consult with us, which he, being a liberal-minded man, consented toI do- A messenger was at once sent f< r us. Hating learnt the par ticulars of the case from him we told him ' to hurry home and put two or three bricks in the fire and have them hot by the time of oar arrival. On reaching the house we found the poor woman very much convulsed on the left side, and her jaws firmly closed. Dr S. said she woulddie. I* Not this time, doctor," was our reply, for we will undertake her cure, and if choose to stay you will see it speedily accomplished. Be however left, and we commenced operations by taking a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper and pouring • wine-glassful of hot water upon it. We then sweetened it and gave it to her husband, telling him to pour it gently into her mouth. She managed to suck an two or three ■ spoonfuls, while we prepared a vapor bath thus: a hot brick from the fire and half immersed it in half a bucket of boiling then raising the patient out of her bed, covering her over with a blanket, we placed her over the steam, and in lees than five minutes the spasm relaxed, and abe spoke. Her husband and friends were overjoyed. Dr S. accompanied us next morning, and found the good woman Sreparing breakfast for her family; the octor declared bis surprise and said he would use the same means in future.' I off* red to treat the person now dead in a similar manner, but his friends would not aik me."