•294 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO ISqS, 



her left arm, and when her speech was leaving her, slie would stammer out 

 some tew words, and after this on a sudden become mute ; when not able to 

 speak, she often moaned and made a melancholy complaining noise ; her speech 

 used to return as it went off, on a sudden. She always had as her speech ceased, 

 and 2 hours after it was gone, a pain in her left side, including arm and leg ; 

 her left foot was then drawn up, as before- mentioned ; her face was high-co- 

 loured when she lost her speech, pale when it returned ; no part of her body 

 withered, but she was generally cold. Some time before she was first struck 

 speechless, her hands used to tremble, but have been of late more steady ; nor 

 was she now so dull and heavy as formerly, but generally more brisk and cheer- 

 ful. When she has her speech she is best, but is always forced to use a stick, 

 being never able to go steadily ; she sjjcaks by intervals as distinctly as ever, 

 and as loud ; can sing when capable of speaking, but at no other time. I 

 repeated the former course of medicines, furnishing her with large quantities, 

 and desired her to let me hear again from her when the physic should be all 

 spent. The same being repeated again she recovered, and by the 10th of 

 Nov. following was grown strong, and to all appearance as well as ever. For 2 

 months past she has walked and spoke every day, but not at all times of the 

 week, for her speech left her, as formerly, on Tuesdays ; but now returned the 

 next day after noon. Thus she continued to the summer following, not speak- 

 ing in more than 20 months on any one Wednesday morning. In the summer 

 of lOSQ, hoping to complete the cure, I procured for her a large stock of me- 

 dicines for the winter following, but since then have heard nothing more of 

 her. 



Of the Posture Master, or a Man having an absolute Command of his Joints and 



Muscles. N° 242, p. 262. 



In Pall Mall, London, lived one Clark, called the posture master, who had 

 such an absolute command of all his muscles and joints, that he could disjoint 

 almost his whole body ; so that he imposed on the famous Mullens, who looked 

 on him in so miserable a condition, that he would not undertake his cure ; 

 though he was a well-grown fellow, yet he would appear in all tlie deformities 

 that can be imagined, as hunch-backed, pot-bellied, sharp-breasted ; he dis- 

 jointed his arms, shoulders, legs, and thighs, that he appeared as great an ob- 

 ject of pity as can be : and he has often imposed on the same company, where 

 he has been just before, to give him money as a cripple; looking so much 

 unlike himself that they could not know him. I have seen him make his hips 

 stand out a considerable way from his loins, and so high that they seemed to 



