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all the disagreeable symptoms disappeared, and 
the cure went on as usual. 
xiv. After the sloughs fell off, I tried to 
carry on the cure by frictions with the liniment 
of ammonia, but the arm remained quite sta- 
tionary ; cold affusions of water on the paralytic 
side, and preparations of cinchona had no better 
effect. After losing a whole month in these 
fruitless expedients, I resumed the application 
of eschars. The remainder of this case is too 
tedious to relate here; it is enough to state, that 
before the patient disembarked at Greenwich, 
October 21st, he could carry two hundred pounds’ 
weight, and walk pretty well, considering that 
he had had so little opportunity of exercising 
his limbs. 
xutvi. The circumstance to which I would par- 
ticularly draw the attention of the reader in this 
case, is the expansion of the flexor muscles of the 
wrist and fingers after the first eschar; the invo- 
luntary opening of the hand was the first effect 
from the augmentation of the vital force by the 
lunar caustic, which was too obvious to escape 
even the patient’s observation. 
Lxvi. The expansibility of paralytic muscles is 
not confined to those cases in which voluntary 
muscular motion can be restored; besides the 
case of Deschamps, which is illustrative of this, 
I have seen two others exactly of the same, one 
