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off, fhe conftantly loft, for the fpace of an hour, the ufe of her 
left arm 5 when her fpeech was leaving her, ihe would ftammer 
out fome few words, and after this on a fudden become mute 5 
and when fhe was not able to fpeak, fhe often moaned, and made 
a melancholy complaining noile, and her fpeech was wont to re- 
turn, as it went off, all on a fudden and at once : She always 
had, as her fpeech ceafed, and two hours after it was gone, a 
pain in her left fide, including the arm and leg, her left foot 
was then drawn up, as abovementioned 5 her face was high-co- 
loured when llie loft her fpeech, and pale when it returned 5 no 
part of her body withered, but the whole was generally cold : 
Some time before fhe was firft ftruck fpeechlefs, her hands ufed 
to tremble, but became afterwards more fteady 5 nor was fhe ib 
dull and heavy as formerly 5 but generally more brifk and chear- 
fall than in her ftate of health : When flie enjoyed the ufe of hef 
ipeech, flie walked beft, but was obliged to ufe a ftick, being 
never able to go fteadily; (lie fpoke at intervals as dirtin6^1y as 
ever, and as loud; could fing, when capable of fpeaking, but at 
no other time. The Dr. furnilhed her with a new fupply of me- 
dicines, and by the ufe of them in a little time fhe was grown 
ftrong, and to all appearance as well as ever ; for two months fhe 
walked and fpoke every day, but not at all times of the week ^ 
for her fpeech left her, as formerly, on TuefdaySy but now re- 
turned the next day afternoon. 
^ nmarkahk hiftance of an ahfokite Command, of the Joints 
and Mufcles. Phil. Tranli N° 242. p. 2(^2. 
IN Tall-mall at London lived one Clarke called the pofture- 
mafter, that had fuch an abfolute command of all his mufcles 
and joints, that he could disjoint almoft his whole body; fo that 
he impofed upon our famous MullenSy who looked on him to be 
in fb miferable a condition, that he would not undertake his 
cure 5 tho' he was a well-grown fellow, yet he would appear in 
all the deformities that can be imagined, hunch-back'd, pot-bel- 
lyed, fharp-breafted ; he disjointed his arms, flioulders, legs 
and thighs, that he appeared as great an objedl: of pity as any 5 
and he has often impofed on the fame company where he had 
been juft before, to give him money as a cripple, he looking fo 
much unlike himlelf that they could not know him. He has 
been feen making his hips ftand out a confiderable way from his 
loins, and lb high that they lecmed to invade the place of his 
back, in which pofture he had an extraordinary large belly : He 
could turn his face into all fhapes, fo rhat he alone a^ed all the 
uncouth, demure, and odd faces of aquaker's-meeting ; ho began 
young to bring his body to it, and there are levcral inftances of 
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