Abstract
According to your desire, I have sent you the case of the locked jaw I lately had under my care. On Saturday June 2, in the afternoon, I was sent for to a poor woman, who an hour or two before had been taken with an oppression at her breast, attended with a slight pain in her side, and at the same time complained of a soreness in her jaws, and a little difficulty in swallowing; as I then took it to be only a common cold, she had fourteen ounces of blood drawn off, and some nitrous medicines sent her. Upon visiting her the next morning, I found her relieved as to her breast and side, but her jaw was fixed, and almost closed, with a very great difficulty of swallowing, Upon a further enquiry, and short reflexions, I was soon convinced, she had, that terrible symptom, a locked jaw. As this disorder is more frequently the consequence of external injuries than from internal causes, I enquired whether she had any kind of wound, or cut; and was told, that about eight days before a rusty nail had run into the bottom of her foot; and through the wound was painful for two or three days, yet it was cured by their own applications, and had been well four days before she was taken with the above complaints.
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