Show treatment of lockjaw in attempting to destroy the alleged fallacy of hydrophobia science has t ng the skull as practiced in 1528 from a woodcut published at strassburg in that year not wrought without an object in regarded as incurable nobody baa has ever taken particular trouble to find a remedy tor for rabies but an absolute and sure cure tor for the majority of cases of lockjaw is positively known today to day when a case of lockjaw presents itself the physicians no longer attempt palliative measures or at tempt to allow the complaint to run its course they recommend surgical interference at once the patient Is anaesthetized which stops the spasms and then a small piece of the skull is removed through this hole a long hollow needle Is passed into the of the brain and through it an injection of an antitoxin is made in successful cases and there are hundreds such the benefit Is im mediate the spasms and contractions of the muscles stop and a cure tol fol lows new york world |