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1854

Feb 14th.
Sent for to attend on Frederick Young, who was suffering much from pain in his right foot caused by a cut of a chisel just above his small toe; this accident had happened ten or twelve days previous but not paining him any he had paid no attention to it. Yesterday he went out in his canoe for fish, and walked about a good deal on the rocks in search of bait. When he returned home he felt great pain from the wound in his foot extending along the calf of his leg and up his back with involuntary startings whenever he attempted to move his toes. In this state of nervous irritibility he passed the night. This morning he sent for me; not being aware of his having cut his foot I was astonished at the state I found him in. The cut was partially healed but was much inflamed and without any discharge neither had pus formed at any previous [] on my asking him some questions concerning the accident, he said he believed the chisel when it fell on his foot had partly separated the abductor[?] of the small toe and that while traversing the rocks yesterday a complete separation of the [?] had taken place as he felt at that time a severe though short sensation of pain darting upward from his toe to the nape of his neck. I saw that no time was to be lost as there was stiffness of the neck, darting pains along the spine and at intervals involuntary contraction of the muscles. In short there was Tetanus in an incipient state. Administered ten grains of calomel combined with two of opium probed the wound very gently and inserted[?]