IN THE LOCKED .f.WW &C. 88$ 



the preceding cases ; and, as no mitigation of the disorder was 

 likely to be brought about by the means already used, he re-, 

 solved to try the cold water. Mr Irving treated him in 

 much the same way as mentioned in the first case, and with 

 such success, that in four days all his complaints left him. 

 He took the bark, the injured parts suppurated kindly, and 

 the man soon recovered. 



Case V. — July 8. 1777. — A Negro woman, aged fifty- 

 seven, belonging to Rose Hall estate, after sleeping, exposed 

 to the cold air in the night, was soon afterwards seized with 

 symptoms of the opisthotonos and locked jaw. The woman 

 of late years had been sickly, and was much emaciated. Mr 

 Patrick Irving attended her, and treated this case by the 

 cold bath ; after which, by cool free air, a liberal use of cla- 

 ret, and a decoction of bark and assafoctida, she got rid of the 

 most urgent symptoms in a week's time, and soon afterwards 

 was dismissed cured. 



Case VI. — On the 14th of September I received a letter 

 from John Drujumond, Esq. (who practises physic with 

 great repute in Westmoreland), dated June 21. 1778. He is 

 a gentleman with whose merit I am well acquainted, and 

 whose veracity I can fully depend upon. I shall, therefore, 

 give you the history in his own words : 



" A History of a Locked Jaw successfully treated by Messrs 

 Drummond and Bewcastle, in Westmoreland, Jamaica. 



" A stout made squat Negro fellow, aged about forty, had 

 been healthy from his youth, till about three years ago, when 

 he was attacked with the coccobia, or joint-evil *, which baf- 

 fled all the art of medicine. It produced its usual and dire- 



• See Hillary on the Diseases of Barbadoes, p. 335. 



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