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warlike habits, are more frequently in the wayof it: they adopt, however, a remedy which theTonga people have borrowed of them, and con-sists in the operation of tocolosi, or passing areed first wetted with saliva into the urethra,so as to occasion a considerable irritation, anddischarge of’ blood ; and if the general spasm isvery violent, they make a seton of this passage,by passing down a double thread, looped overthe end of the reed, and when it is felt in theperinaeum they cut down upon it, seize hold ofthe thread, and withdraw the reed, so that thetwo ends of the thread hang from the orifice ofthe urethra, and the doubled part from the arti-ficial opening in the perinaeum; the thread isoccasionally drawn backwards and forwards,which excites very great pain, and abundantdischarge of blood. The latter operation Mr.Mariner has seen performed several times; butonly twice for tetanus, arising in both instancesfrom wounds in the foot: in these cases thespasms, but particularly the convulsive pa-roxysms, were exceedingly violent, extending tothe whole body, neck, face, trunk, and extre-mities : but in neither case was the jaw per-manently locked, though on every accession itwas violently closed for a few seconds. A na_tive of the Fiji islands performed one operation,and Hala A'pi A'pi the other: they both hap-