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for England. He was affected with hemiplegia 
of the right side. His arm was shrunk and de- 
prived of all voluntary motion; the flexor muscles 
of the fingers and the extensor longus pollicis 
were contracted, the fingers were in consequence 
closed, and the thumb drawn radiad; the leg 
and thigh were shrivelled, but he could walk a 
little. His disease had commenced by a stroke 
of apoplexy, three months previous, during which 
period he had remained in the Garrison Hospital 
of Madras, where he had been repeatedly bled 
and blistered. — 
LxI. April 11th——An eschar was made in the 
right axilla with the nitrate of silver. On the 
following morning, when questioned respecting 
the effect of the eschar, he replied, “Shortly 
after the issue was made, I felt my hand open.” 
This being the first paralytic patient that I had 
treated with lunar caustic, I was not a little sur- 
prised to see him move his fingers, wrist, and 
fore-arm with facility. The pulsation of the 
radial artery was become much stronger; and a 
thermometer placed in either hand stood at 100°, 
the temperature of the atmosphere between decks 
being 90°. 
Lxu. It became shortly after evident, that in 
future, it would be necessary to make the eschar 
over the cervical vertebree, for the muscles of the 
shoulder joint, notwithstanding the intimate con- 
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