| Description | Journal of Jonathan Troup: June 1789
He visited Mr Curry's estate, fine estate which grew coffee
He inoculated Mr Andrew Smith's boy
He treated a young man belonging to Mr Curry
He continued his notes on love
His patients were all better, very few sick
The recipe for a remedy given
He transcribed letters to Dr Fillan or Troup regarding negroes being sent for examination or remedies required ("I am sending you the negro Antoine, I beg you to examine him as to whether he is in a fit state to work" " I am looking for a remedy for the negro [Deman] , please send a phial")
The Fourth of June was the King's birthday. Troup fired 14 rounds of his pistol then the battery at Roseau fired a round at 12, then a soldier on the hill and then a frigate fired a round
He described the fireworks and negro dance
He described a thunderstorm
He travelled to Mr Curry's estate to see case of prolapsed uterus
He got 'L.V.' from negro wench of Dr Clarke's
He mentioned two marriages that took place
He transcribed two letters (in French) regarding two negroes with "enflés du ventre" (Swollen abdomen) and "des jambes mandé" and requesting medicine
He treated an injury to a sailor who had 'smashed off all flesh off the last joint of little finger…this was done with an anchor'
He extracted teeth from several patients
He described dining at Dr Fillan's house
He transcribed a letter (in French) requesting "Docteur Fillane" to view a negro who suffered greatly with her stomach and a "grand feu dans la poitrine"
He was called to a negro girl belonging to Dr Cobham who was with child and had gone into labour too soon. The baby was stillborn and appeared 4-5 months old
Stewart Carpenter died unexpectedly after translation of the gout to his head
The Fête de Dieu was kept by all French people on the 11th of June. He described the day
He treated a Mulatto man who had had fits in the evening from exposure to the sun but quickly recovered
He visited Mr Winston's estate and opened a large encysted tumour near the lower part of the [vastus externus] muscle of a negro and it discharged 3 pints of white purulent matter, freely and not too thick. The next day, the tumour was better with thin watery serous liquid but a tumour arose on his loins on right side of lower lumb[ax ventitier]
He gave a recipe for a treatment for colic
He wrote a letter to his brother in the Highlands
Madame Yeo died and was buried. The governor attended the funeral. Troup described the dress of mourners
He was introduced to George Judah who had had virulent gonorrhea since 25 February. 'George Judah gave me the watch word - 'vous parler bon Francois' [sic] he has chancre and virulent gonorrhoea'. He developed another buboe and became feverish for a day or two
He treated Mr Bine who was dropsical. A day later, Mr Bine was vomiting some of the powders he was being given and developed a fever
He transcribed a copy of a letter (in French) concerning a treatment
He made notes from medical volumes
Mr Cobham had a little girl dead of dysentery today
He treated 3 or 4 cases of Chincough
He transcribed a letter (in French) requesting medicine
He visited the Bath estate - vomited one, the rest were better
He went on board a frigate
He attended another ceremony which was similar to the Fete de Dieu and described the ceremony
He saw Mr Chollet who gave him an invitation
He remarked the man belonging to Mr Cobham who was suffering from lock'd jaw was better
He treated one girl with ringworm in her arm and sore eyes and other people who were also infected
Dr Fillan was ill in the middle of the month
He told of the death of Scots manager of [Camefield], very young stout healthy lad
He treated Mr Cobham's man, Romeo, for hardness in bowels shifting and spasm of abdominal muscles. A few days later, Cobham's man was still no better and a little worse. Bleeding him produced some improvement. Following the bleeding, he was troubled with purging for a day. He reacted to the bark he was given
The boy he treated in May had a return of convulsive symptoms
He transcribed a letter (in French) requesting medicine for breathing difficulties
Troup was still suffering from buboe from gonorrhoea. He was ill overnight and in the morning with gripes from use of mercury. His buboe was larger - 'I believe it will suppurate, God help me'. A few days later, his buboe continued to be red and inflamed making walking difficult
He remarked that the letter boy was far better but the following day he was purging and a little feverish
He saw Mr Thomas Watt's negro who had been sick for 9 days with general debility and a fixed pain in his left side. Following treatment he improved but suffered from purging
He was called after dinner to knife accident involving two of Mr Winston's female servants
He treated children for Chincough (Whooping cough) including Dr Fillan's youngest boy
He saw a young creole with cachectic scorbutic constitution with pains in his bowels
He treated a French negro woman and man in faint from travelling in the sun and believed that their stomachs were empty
He treated a negro with displaced clavicle
He gave a long description of the weather
He treated a negro who had been accidentally struck by an axe
He transcribed a letter (in French) requesting medicine for fever
He treated one of Mr Cobham's girls who had sore eyes and ringworm on her arm. Others on the estate were also infected including Mr Cobham himself
He treated a gentleman's servant from St Kitts with buboe and chancre of frenum penis.
He treated Hethcote's lad
He treated 'young Byron who has swollen belly and no stools for 3 days'
He visited Woodbridge and [Glenurchie] estates
He described the trial for defamation of Mr Lowndes of the Caribbean Register
He made notes on Scotland |