IN THE LOCKED JAW, &C. .'i35 



quested to be led to the back waterfall, which was distant 

 about 100 yards. Under this he sat down ; after ten minutes 

 his mother advised him to get up, but lie felt such easa from 

 the water, that he staid full half an hour ; he then got up, 

 and walked back without assistance. In the afternoon, he 

 again sat under the fall of water for half an hour; he took 

 nourishment pretty freely ; and, as I found he had used but 

 little of the decoction, I ordered a few glasses of claret. 



March 11. — No attack of spasm these last twenty- four 

 hours ; he sat twice this day under the waterfall for a quar- 

 ter of an hour at a time ; he took several glasses of the bark- 

 decoction above mentioned, and also some claret. 



March 12. — This morning saw my patient walking up 

 from the sea-side ; he told me that he had sat down in the 

 water for a good while, so as to let the surf of the sea beat 

 on his back, by which he thought himself much benefited; 

 his jaws now were at full liberty, he ate and drank heartily, 

 and took the decoction every four hours. 



I recommended going into the sea twice a-day, which com- 

 pleted the cure by the 15th. I saw him six miles distant 

 from Rosehall, at work, and in good health, the beginning 

 of May. 



Case III. — April 4. 1777. — Having occasion to be in the 

 parish of Westmoreland, my advice was requested for a 

 Negro man, belonging to Mr George Mowatt, merchant 

 at Savanna-la-Mar. 



This man, aged about thirty, was tall, strongly made, and 

 till now, enjoyed an uninterrupted state of good health ; he 

 was employed as a labourer on a wharf. The weather at 

 this time was uncommonly warm ; and Unless this circumstance 

 occasioned his illness, he could assign no other cause what- 

 ever. He was taken suddenly with the disorder three days be- 

 fore I saw him. His complaints were a pain under the car- 

 tilago ensiformis, — his jaws close locked, and a stiffness of 



