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place, as all the gentlemen that reside here say, it was more severe and constant 

 for the time than the former. Many buildings have tumbled down, but few 

 people were killed. The earth groaned in so dreadful a manner, that we expected 

 every moment it would open, and swallow this place and all its inhabitants. Wc 

 have had several slight shocks since, and one this morning about 2 o'clock, 

 which was very severe; our house shook- like a bull-rush. There was another 

 more slight about 5. 



XXVllI. A Further Account of the Case of fFil/iam Carey, whose Muscles 



began to he Ossified. By the Rev. fVm. Henry, D. D., F. R. S. p. 143. 



In March 17^9, I had this young man brought up to Dublin, and admitted 

 in4p Mercer's hospital. The physicians and surgeons put him under a salivation ; 

 and afterwards applied to his arms and joints mercurial plasters. The good 

 effects of this process, was the drying up the great discharge of humour, which 

 he had at his elbows and wrists, and an immediate check to the progress of the 

 ossification. In June following he was discharged from the hospital, being fur- 

 nished with mercurial plasters and directions. By the advice of the physicians, 

 he went to his own place near Ballyshanon, on the western ocean ; and there, 

 in pursuance of their directions, bathed in the ocean twice a day, during that 

 whole summer and harvest, and constantly rubbed his whole body and limbs over 

 with the juice of the quercus marina, immediately after coming out of the sea. 

 In consequence of this course, he happily exchanged his ghastly hectic counte- 

 nance for a healthy and athletic complexion, which continued till March 1760. 



About this time his cough returned, his sores began to run, and the ossifica- 

 tion to return. In this distress he came to me to Dublin. With some difiiculty 

 Igot him admitted again into Mercer's hospital, where he continued for some 

 months, and was again treated with mercurial medicines and applications as be- 

 fore. After being discharged, he returned to his former course of bathing in 

 the ocean, and anointing his body with the quercus marina. This process re- 

 stored his health, and entirely stopped the progress of the ossification. ' He also 

 recovered the use of some of the ossified joints, particularly of his wrists and 

 fingers; and his knees and legs were so relaxed by the dissolution of the callus, 

 that he was able to walk 20 miles in a day. 



I feared that his disorder might return this spring, as it did in 1760, but it 

 has not returned. That I might be the better certified, I wrote to Sir James 

 Caldwell. The answer I received was, that he had been a few days ago at Cas- 

 tlecaldwell, and found himself so well and strong, as to importune Sir James to 

 admit him into his body of the Enniskillen lighthorse. The poor man thinks 

 the ossification entirely stopped ; yet by the appearance of his arms and wrists he 

 seems to be mistaken. The first hardness still continues, and all the muscles 



