augenius

Updated: June 28, 2025

Augenius writes of a tailor who died in consequence of a prick of a needle between the nail and flesh of the end of the thumb. Amatus Lusitanus mentions a similar instance in an old woman, although, from the symptoms given, the direct cause was probably tetanus.

George M. (George Milbrey) Gould - Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine