OCR Text |
Show J AW LOCKED IN LAUGHTER Young Woman's Peculiar ' Predicament Puzzles the Doctors. EAST NOTiWALK, Conn., Jan. 7. A peculiar Illness that has so far baffled e medical science of the town, and hich Is a sort of nervous lockjaw, is iow attracting much attention here. The patient Is Miss Jennie Silcox, the oung daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loren- H. Silcox of 6 Warren street. Miss Silcox laughed heartily Sunday fvening, and her jaw became locked vide open, and although It now is closed :he is hardly able to use the Jaw, nor tas the skill of the physicians been ible to relieve her. Dr. Charles G. I3o-tannan I3o-tannan Is In attendance. Miss Silcox was visiting at the home - , if a relative In Norwalk in company with Howard Seymour when the attack came on. Durln? a hearty laugh she Buddenly shouted: "I can't shut my mouth!" Mr. Seymour struck her under un-der the chin at the time and managed to close the Jaw. Miss Silcox was immediately taken with n nervous shaking of the heart, Jwomethintj akin to St. Vitus' dance. Dr. "ohannan states that the patient is now better and can talk and eat, but the ' 'Shaking of the head continues. . t |