A case of tetanus cure with a mercury-quartz lamp

In the absence of tetanus toxoid, tetanus in a local life is often a fatal disease. Dr. Uspensky from Tulma, Yaroslavl province (Clinical Medicine, No. 15-16, 1927, p. 852) used an infusion of calcium chloride solution for tetanus and received good results. In the Nolinskaya hospital, I observed a case of tetanus. Having no anti-tetanus serum at hand (it was not then either in Vyatka or in Nizhny-Novgorod), I came to the idea that a mercury-quartz lamp could be used here, proceeding from the considerations that under the influence of the light of a mercury-quartz lamp it increases blood calcium content. I performed 6 sessions of general illumination with a mercury-quartz lamp in a tetanus patient, and I got good results here — the patient recovered from this serious illness. This case was demonstrated by me in the scientific medical circle of the city of Nolinsk.