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feveral very offenfive ftools. Her breath was now, 
and had been for fome days, very fetid. 
Though her jaw was locked very clofe, fhe was 
without pain; even in the Temporal and Maffeter 
mufcles, whofe office is to bring the under-jaw to 
the upper ; and which, in this indance, were tenfe, 
hard, and fpafmodically affeded. She was feveriffi,- 
her pulfe was quick, and her fleffi hot ; and ffie had 
had but very little deep. 
On Monday, July 12, I vilited this poor girl in 
confultation with my learned and ingenious friend 
and collegue Dr. Morton. We found ffie had had a 
redlefs night ; her fever was high, and it was infi- 
nitely difficult to introduce any thing between her 
teeth. As there had been no wound, no eruption 
repelled, we were of opinion, from her offenfive 
breath and other indications, that the fpafm of her 
jaw was fymptomatic, either of worms or foul 
bowels. 
Whatever was admitted into her mouth was fwal- 
lowed without difficulty ; neither in this date of the 
difeafe was her breathing at all affeded. The regi- 
men we put this patient under, for this formidable 
complaint, will be mentioned hereafter. 
For near three weeks the diforder confined itfelf to 
the jaw, during which time ffie was condantly fever- 
iffi. At times indeed her fever ran very -high* and 
her pulfe beat 130 drakes in a minute. At other 
times it beat only about iooj but never for t'hefe 
three weeks was it dower than that number. 
Notwithdanaing our bed endeavours, the difeafe 
not only continued, but the rigidity communicated 
itielf to the mufcles of her neck, fo that ffie could not 
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