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besides frequent retchings to vomit, a trembling of his hands, and a constant 

 head-ach. This man had taken no medicine before he came into St. Thomas's, 

 and since that time was attended by Dr. Reeves ; but as that gentleman was not 

 then present, they were informed by the apothecary, that Clayton Hand had 

 been admitted in the advanced state of a continued fever, attended with a stupor, 

 and a sunk pulse, and that the fever had not left him till several days after his 

 admission. The nurse's account was, that he had all along lain like one stupi- 

 fied, and that after the fever went off, he had continued for some time very dull 

 of hearing. They could learn nothing certain about the precise duration of the 

 fever, but from what the patient and his attendants told them, they collected, 

 that he must have been ill between 2 and 3 weeks. So that from all these 

 marks, they made little doubt, but that this person had been ill of the true jail- 

 distemper ; and were confirmed in their opinion by the following circumstance. 



In company with the convalescent was one Thomas Wilmot, another of Mr. 

 Stibbs's journeymen, who had likewise worked in Newgate, and whom they re- 

 member a few days before to have seen in that place, very active, and in perfect 

 health. This man told them, he had come to see his companion, but as he 

 apprehended himself in danger of falling into the same fever, he should there- 

 fore be glad of their advice. On examination they found his tongue white, his 

 pulse quick, and that he complained of a pain and confiision of his head, with a 

 shaking of his hands, and a weakness in his limbs. He said his disorder had 

 come on gradually, since the time they saw him in Newgate, but that he was 

 then so very ill, he could work no longer. From which account it appeared to 

 them, that this man had also caught the infection ; but as the fever seemed not 

 to be quite formed, 'they had hopes of stopping its progress : and with this view 

 they advised him to take a vomit, and on the following night a sudorific. He 

 followed the prescription, and the effects shall afterwards be mentioned. After 

 Wilmot had told them his own case, he informed him of the indisposition of 3 

 more of his companions, who had been likewise employed by Mr. Stibbs in 

 Newgate : on which they took their direction, visited them, and found them all 

 ill of the jail-distemper. The first was Michael Sewel, who lodged in the Swan- 

 yard near Newgate. This man had been 10 days confined to his bed, without 

 taking any medicine. He was then delirious, and had the petechial eruption : 

 but observing that he lay in a close, ill-aired, and dirty room, without any at- 

 tendants but his wife, then suckling a child, they believed he had no chance to 

 recover where he was, and therefore recommended his case to Mr. Stibbs, who 

 procured his admission that day into St. Thomas's Hospital ; where he also 

 recovered. 



The 2d was Adam Chaddocks, who lay at a green-shop in the little Old-Bailey. 

 He was taken ill on the same day with the former, and had used no medicine. 



