Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-03-09
FOR LocKJAW.
Remarkable Results Of Trials Of Or.
Woods Discovery.


Whenever medical science achieves
a triumph over disease the world stops
for awhile to admire and wonder at II.
Just now the discovery of remedy
for tetanus, commonly called lockjaw.
made by DR.. ID. Flavel Woods, the
widely known physician OF Philadel.
phia, is attracting unusual attention
among leading physicians. In recent
article, which appeared In the Medical
Journal, DIR. Woods made the follow.
Ing statement;
Having seen many cases of this
dreadful nervous disorder treated In
many different ways In hospitals and
private practice. | cite this case and
Its treatment as the only one | have
ever seen recover"
AS lockjaw has generally been re-
garded as incurable the treatment
used by DIR. Woods has been tried In
number of cases since with astonish.
ing results. The original case cured
by DIR. Woods. he says, was twelve
year-old boy In Philadelphia. The lad
was In such "a serious condition that
his mother would not permit his going
to hospital. preferring, as she said
that he remain and "dle at home"
The following Is what DIR. Woods
tells of the treatment he used, after
stating that tho lads foot had been In
jured:
THE place OF injury was freely
opened and dark, tarry substance
catered blood) was scraped out The
foot was then soaked In weak solu
ton of carbollc acid and warm water
for about half an hour As Il was Inn
possible for him to swallow. 10 minims
OF 10 per cent. solution of carbolic
acid was used hypodermlcally 10 min.
utes after the first 20 minims were In.
jected. Is minutes after the second
80 minims were used. Thirty mlnims
were continued throughout the day
every half hour. with half grain OF
cannabis indica: at night the cannabis
Indica was discontinued the pupils of
his eyes at this time being very con.
tracted. The carbollc acid solution
was administered through the night.
"On the afternoon OF the third day
he slept for two hours, seemed re-
freshed and said he felt better. From
this time ne continued to improve. but
tho rigidity did not leave him for
three weeks after the attack.
From this case learn that carbolic
acid In tetanus IL effective only In
large and heroic doses. Under these
circumstances Il Ia surprising how
much the system will bear. | believe
that carbolic acid acts as an antitoxin.
and In much more reliable than any
serum. which | have seen tried. II
given boldly as early AZ possible, no
that the system may be quickly and
completely saturated, its antlseptic in
fiuencs will be manifest on the blood.
and believe that there IL great hope
of this agent becoming a great boon
to humanity In the cure of this dis
tressIng and alarming malady Short.
ly after convalescence of this boy.
learned through Capt. Wolcott, Civil
Engineer of the United States Navy
at League Island. Of case OF tetanus
In one OF their horses cured by the use
of carbolic acid on my suggestion OF
that treatment"
II has been learned that the carDollc
acid treatment has been used often
in Philadelphia and some western
cities with very great success. Army
surgeons have taken II up aB the first
known remedy to cure lockJaw among
horses.