| Description | Journal of Jonathan Troup: September 1789
He was called to see Mr Morson's negro who had a fever. The next day the negro had a headache and pain in the neck and the small of the back followed by sickness and convulsions before he improved. Troup had a discussion with Dr Fillan regarding treatment and disagreed with Dr Fillan's treatment of the negro. Several days later, he drew blood from the negro. He remarked that he thought he probably had the same condition as Matthias at Woodbridge had.
Mrs Warner's boy was the same. Dr Fillan advised to send the negro girl Troup had been treating to Mount Demolin and there to swing in a hammock. Several days later Troup remarked that the boy was just the same but the girl was better for a change of air
He was still treating Mr Cobham's sick children
He made up medicine for Dr Mudie
Mr Fraser ate little and was constantly tippling at grog. He had acid eructations, gave himself up to passions and had hiccups
Mr Petit's manager had costiveness (constipation). The manager's wench, a mulatto girl who vomited the worm was better, 'yet from my smiling at her, she can't bear me since….how necessary it is to gain the favour of the women and how dangerous it is to incur their displeasure. Never laugh at the sick'
Mr Fraser's little child and his boy had been bitten by a mad dog. The child developed a fever and over the following days passed four worms, one of which was over a foot long
The mother of the child he cut the excrescence from was better
He saw Mr Corlet. He had the round head and short neck that was described of apopletic patients. He drank freely of grog and had acid in his stomach
He made notes from Pindar's Odes
He remarked that Mr Smith was nothing better
'Dr Fillan pretends to be sick again'
'[Mr Sejenton's] Negro woman had a stomach full of bile and phlegm, headache, pain in loins, belly costive yesterday yet was purging today'. The following day she was a little better
French mollatoe woman with worms was nothing better
Mr Curry's mollatoe woman felt the lash of his hands. 'She has ague but would not take my medicines, let her take Mr Carson's'
Polly Clark told her he was much loved by French and English and had certainly saved Penny Winston's life
The negroes on Woodbridge and Bath estates were largely suffering from heat, coup de soleil, diarrhoea and then a number of cases of yaws
He gave several long descriptions of the weather with sketches
He remarked that the negroes were walking about in heavy rains, and expected some employment from it
He had seven patients at Woodbridge including a new negro with pain in the belly and feverish
Mr [Lavedant] sent his negro with a note concerning a blow he had received on his left eye 15 days ago. The boy had lost his sight. Troup recounted an argument with Dr Fillan and Mr Carson regarding his treatment
He saw Madame Fuillée's child who had chincough (whooping cough). The child passed two dead worms and its fever abated
Mr Corlet's washerwoman, a negro girl aged 16, was carried down the river and swallowed a lot of dirty water. She purged all the following night night but no head pain and little in knees. Later she had pain in her neck and giddiness. She benefitted from a blister
He extracted the teeth of several negroes
He read Horace
He went to see Mr Cobham who quarrelled with Troup alleging inattention on Troup's part. Troup told Dr Fillan about his argument with Mr Cobham. Dr Fillan expressed surprise as Mr Cobham had told him recently how well attended his negroes were
Dr Fillan told him that Mr Beaubois' negro was just the same. He died several days later. They opened him the same day. Troup described Dr Fillan giving him mercury
The hydrocephalus boy had a skulking about look (with sketch). He remarked that he was a little better since having his teeth drawn but still had constant fever
He read Fordyce on fevers
He visited Mrs Jordan's and remarked that people were pretty well
Mr Fraser's Judah was delivered of a dead child and was not aware of it being dead in the womb. She would not take physic for 9 days after delivery which was a custom
He gave Mr Lowndes his advertisement for natural productions which was to go into Sunday's papers
He described words and phrases used by the negroes
He saw Mr Gereaux's French mulatto girl, the one he had given a vomit for worms. She vomited a worm but was no better
He made notes on V.S. (bleeding)
Mr Carson had an attack of fever in the full moon. He made notes on fevers and phases of the moon
He described seeing negro dances
He received a letter from Mr Bernard regarding his negro with flux who had been delivered of a child not at full term. Neither Dr Fillan or Mr Carson had been aware she was pregnant and Troup believed that both had taken the child's life through not attending to symptoms
He saw an abscess on the thigh of a negro owned by Mr Winston. The abscess had been opened by Mr Carson. Troup didn't think he would live
He bled Mr Baron's negro and gave her a purgative
Captain Finlayson was commissary of Dominique through the Duke of Gordon
The bell tolled for 2-3 days for the death of French people
He saw Miss Collins at Mrs Warner's and described her 'fine head of hair…very agreeable girl'
He inadvertently gave a vomit to a boy for a man without asking his complaint - he vomited blood from it
He treated a negro of Mr Watt's for a cold
He read Caesar and made notes
He read and made notes from Lewis's Dispensary and Pharmacy.
He remarked that Mr Pagan's woman with the cut parotid duct got worse and worse but Mr Winston's Penny was still better
He described the work of barbers
He mentioned skin colour, describing a negro with white legs after being scalded with boiling rum. Black children at birth were like mulatto, mulattoes were like white children.
He related stories about his drunken behaviour with women
He saw François who was better
Mr Rainy's carpenter with angina pectoris was vomiting
Messrs Knox and Fraser told him 'they did not like Dr Fillan because he seems so dead'
Troup himself was unwell, want of feeling in lower intestines, wind, lowness of spirits and cold clammy sweat
He described his bad dreams
He saw Ingelo (the negro with the dancing) who was plagued with jiggers in his toes. One was very bad - 'Gave him a whip with my cane on the toe still affected until it bled. He cried very much from pain'. A few days later he saw Mr Kemp who told him that Ingelo was better. A week later, he saw Ingelo who was not well again with the same complaint
He went to the mulatto ball - there were only two or three women there but plenty of gentlemen
He went to Bath to see Miss McKimmy who had fever from a cold with pains all over her skin. Dr Fillan was not pleased that Troup had not given her a vomit and rode there later to do so. Troup criticised him heavily. A few days later, he remarked that she was better
He described a coco tree
Dr Fillan went to see Mr Watt who had been several days in a fever
Dr Clark's Penny, a dark sister of Polly Clark, has a small phlegmon at the root of the index finger on her right hand. A little boy bit it and she was siezed with fever
Mr Rainy's new negro had softness and a tumour on his head
A young woman of Mr Corlet's who had never had a child, had her courses and checked them by going into the river. Troup remarked that she had a bite or bruise on her breast
He described trees and fruit and other plants
Mr Fraser's daughter had stiffness in her neck, restlessness and want of appetite. Several days later, she died - stiff as a poker 2-3 days before. A group of negroes 'waked the child' (i.e. had a wake) which he described
He sketched a crab
He saw negro of Mr Bernard's and remarked that his plantation was almost inaccessible.
Mr Knox showed feverish symptoms and a few days later he vomited blood
Dr Fillan quarrelled with Troup, leaving a note at his house regarding Mr Bernard's negro
He saw Mr Jaquin for swelling of the knee. His little negro girl had an abscess over the humerus
He got a sparrowhawk
He transcribed a letter (in French) from the doctor who treated Mr Andrew Smith
He sketched the head of a fish
He told of a 5 year old who had all the marks of puberty of a 13 year old
He sketched the motto of the Mercure de France
Dr Fillan sent him to Bryan who was bruised from fighting. Troup would not go - 'I was wearied'
Mr Laury Clark offered him the chance to cover for a young Irish doctor, possibly permanently
He gave prices for animals
Mr Corlet was unwell - of a plethoric sanguinis habit due to bad diet and debauchery. He had had no passage since Monday and felt gripes in his bowels. A few days later, he was called to Mr Corlet who had back and breast pains and his fundament had come down with the purge. Troup treated him and saw much improvement
He sketched a fish
He treated Mr Rigg for gonorrhea
Mr Smith's negro was struck on the lower forehead which affected his eyelids
He saw a negro with hydrophobia. The following day, the man was worse. He had been bitten by a mad dog. Dr Fillan was disbelieving that it could continue in his system for a year. A few days later, Troup remarked that the mad dog has got loose and bitten some negroes. Dr Fillan didn't believe it was hydrophobia and Troup described him as an 'ignorant blockhead'. The man was later thrown into prison and shackled. Troup visited him him in jail and described his condition. The following day, he died.
A three year old negro at Glennie's Estate had a fit and a costive belly
He described Lieutenant Governor Stewart's burial
Mr Shea's negro was bitten on the deltoid muscle in his shoulder
He described a shark taken ashore. When opened it up, they found part of a negro inside him and a horsetail.
Mr De La Fuillées was very ill. Troup called up to see him in the morning
He visited a corpulent mulatto woman who was vomiting and purging
He treated a child from Souffrir who got his finger smashed
Over the month, the relationship between himself and Dr Fillan worsened rapidly. He remarked that separation was soon to follow between them. The following day he refused a dinner invitation from Dr Fillan and was not asked again. He did not see him for some days and remarked that he would 'let Dr F know I am not to be mocked & shuffled off'
He planned to dine from then on with a French cook and improve his French - 'If Dr C does not agree, I'll be off & my next _____ will be the other islands then America'. The following day he stated that he would engage French cook for 12 to 14 dollars per month
He treated a negro suffering from fits. The negro desired greatly to get back to his own country to get good strong food for the hard biscuit hurt his stomach
Mr Carson called him to dissect a negro of Mr Winston's who was not dead when he went to do so
Mr Carson told him of a woman at Bath estate who had a hernia the size of a turkey's egg. He visited her but she later died. He described her dissection and what they found
He gave a table of charges for medicines
A number of mad dogs had been killed and others confined
He mentioned buying a demi-john of wine
He made notes on Horatii Gramma |