190 Removal of a Paralytic Affection 
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aie an ounce of sulphuric acid, I ea eeiy® basin a 
may say without trouble) about ned tumblers of as pleas- 
ant drink asI could ask or wish for 
‘Itisa — luxury, and I have no “doubt that it has beer 
of much service to my health. The sulphate of lime here, 
is wore six or ght times what the ground weit costs. 
RT. Bee ae a Paralyti c apes’ 6 cited 1H a 
sti ey of leh ing. Communicated for this Journal, by 
D. Oumstep, Professor of Chemistry in the College of 
North Carolina. 
Tue following case of recovery froma tre Re affection 
by a violent stroke of lightnin ntioned to m 
by a very respec cable gentieman in whos teats I had re- 
Ivanic experiments, erformed b 
Dr. Ure, oe the rors € abe” My i 
formant ae wie had opportunity to investivate the facts, 
was so obliging as to direct me to such sources of informa- 
tion as could be relied on; and I have since been favoured 
with letters from the individual himself, and from respecta- 
ble gentlemen in his neighbourhood. Common report, as 
usual, be represented the case in the most marvellous col- 
from which it would appear, that tottering and wrink- 
( a age tiie restored, in an instant, to vigorous and 
oming youth, was no longer a matter of fable. Accord- 
ing to this authority, “the patient (Mr. Samuel Leffers of 
Carteret County, N. C.) having reached a very advanced 
age ering so severely under a paralytic affection 
that his feet were unable to support him, and his. face was , 
ulties, he had retained ever since, during a period of four- 
teen years, which had roa tia? upon the verge i four- 
score years op ten : 
esirot ascertain how ‘meh of this - 
matter of Tet 1 commenced a correspondence which finally 
