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the cheek, and ihc eye. The other fymptoms were removed 

 by hleeding and the ufe of the remedies iifual in inch cafes ; 

 but the eve always remained fixed, wilh pains in the mnfcles. 

 The application of Galvanifm for ten minutes was fufficient 

 to excite abundant tears and a difcharge of a watery fluid 

 from the nofe on the fide which had alw ays been fliut fince 

 the attack of the diforder, and greatly alleviated the pains of 

 the mufcles. She could even turn her eve to both fides ; 

 but (lie found great difficulty in raifing or lowering it, with 

 a fentation of heavinefs all around the eye. This operation 

 being repeated, after the interval of a day the eye acquired 

 its forn-icr freedom of motion, and the patient was freed 

 from every fenfation of uncafinefs. 



" Thefe two operations were performed in the prefence of 

 feveral perfons, and executed almoll entirely by C Hyacinth 

 Carcna, lefturer on natural philofophy in the National Col- 

 lege of Turin. 



" The advantages of Galvanifm will appear to you ftill 

 more decifive, by the cure of a perfon labouring under hy- 

 drophobia, performed lately by C. Rofli, who will give a full 

 and complete account of it in a memoir on which he is no\* 

 em]doyed. 



" A man bit in the finger by a mad doe, came to confult 

 him, in confcquence of a pain which he felt in the arm, the 

 back, and particularly the finger, which had been bit more 

 than a month. A cauftic applied to the finger removed the 

 pain ; but a few days after it returned, accompanied with 

 i'ympioms of hydrophobia. The patient c(<uld no longer look 

 at water without horror ; an inflammation in the throat pre- 

 vented him from fwallowing even chewed. bread, and he ex- 

 perienced a itrong propenfiiy to bite thofo around him. 



" fn this ftate he was brouirht to C. Rofli, who obferving 

 that he could not bear the fight of water, nor that even of 

 Ihiiiing bodies, provided in another room a pile confifting of 

 50 pairs of plates of filver and zinc intermixed wilh 50 pioees 

 of paficboard moiflened with a folution of muriate of ammo- 

 nia. He employed flips of brown paper moiflened as a con- 

 ductor, on which the naked feet of the patient were placed, 

 and at the monT^nt when he opened his mouth lo bite, one 

 end of the arc was ihrult into it, while the other communi- 

 cated with the pile. Hie patient fuflered a great deal from 

 this operation, which after feveral fliocks weakened him fo 

 much that he could no longer iupport it. Being llretchcd 

 out on the floor, he was then (Galvanized wilh eafe : the 

 operation made the fvveat run from him in drops. After 

 fonie time Koffi caiifcd the patient to be conveyed home, and 



gave 



