Archives of pediatrics . etetany subsided in two or three hours, but it recurred everyday for three months. He was treated by bleedings, but thetetany was uniformly worse after each loss of blood, thecontractions becoming more severe and also more only were the muscles of the extremities in a state oftetanic contraction, but also those of the face and trunk, sothat respiration and speech were embarrassed. Although thecontractions were aggravated by bleeding, and were never sobad as after the fourth venesection, they ceased entirely for aperiod of ten months after cupping along the
Archives of pediatrics . etetany subsided in two or three hours, but it recurred everyday for three months. He was treated by bleedings, but thetetany was uniformly worse after each loss of blood, thecontractions becoming more severe and also more only were the muscles of the extremities in a state oftetanic contraction, but also those of the face and trunk, sothat respiration and speech were embarrassed. Although thecontractions were aggravated by bleeding, and were never sobad as after the fourth venesection, they ceased entirely for aperiod of ten months after cupping along the spine. Subse-quently they recurred every year at the close of winter andcontinued two months. The patient was habitually consti-pated, and the torpid state of the bowels seemed to be thechief factor in producing the tetany. In the following casewhich I have recently had under observation, constipationappears also to have been the chief cause : George C, withoutteeth, and at the age of seven months, when tetany PHOTOGRAPH OF A CHILD, SHOWING TONIC CONTRACTION OF GROUPS OFMUSCLES OF THE EXTREMITIES AS THE RESULT OF TETANY. Smith : Tetany. 375 was taken from the breast at the age of two months. Helives in a tenement house, and from the time of weaning hasbeen fed with condensed milk, one heaped teaspoonful of largesize to fifty of water. Besides this, he has taken once daily atablespoonful of Xestl^s food to ten of water, AVith thisdiet his growth has been about like the average, but he hasbeen habitually very constipated, so as frequently to requireassistance in obtaining an evacuation. Recently groups ofmuscles in all the extremities have undergone tonic contrac-tion, producing deformities as shown in the accompanyingphotograph, and brief attacks of laryngismus stridulus. Theseattacks of spasm of the glottis occur both by day and by night,causing for a moment the characteristic stridulous mother states that at times he is feverish, probably fromthe co
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