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ciated. She was incapable of uttering the least articulate sound, or even of 

 having her teeth so far separated by the speculum oris, as to admit his little finger 

 between them. The masseter and temporal muscles, from their contraction, 

 felt vastly tense and rigid, being particularly painful on pressing them, or on en- 

 deavouring to open her mouth ; the genio-hyoidei muscles appeared alike circum- 

 stanced, and the platysmamyoides on the right side very often greatly convulsed. 



After every usual method judiciously administered by Mr. Guddrige of Brent, 

 her surgeon, to little avail. Dr. S. had but small hopes from medicine ; therefore 

 recommended electricity; on which account, she, having no opportunity of its 

 being done in the country, came to her lodgings, taken in town for that pur- 

 pose, on January 15, when, she being somewhat inclined to be plethoric, and 

 her menses not^ hitherto interrupted, he ordered 14 oz. of blood to be taken 

 away, and the next day gave her a few slight electrical shocks on the leg of the 

 diseased side; she immediately felt an agreeable sensation in it. This process 

 was daily repeated, with a gradual increase of the vis electrica, sometimes plus, 

 sometimes minus, electrifying her for 6 or 7 days, by which time she became 

 much stronger, and capable of walking alone tolerably well. 



Dr. S. now (she being, as to her jaw and speech, as at first) several times full- 

 charged her with the electric matter, discharging it alternately from the mas- 

 seters, her temples, and under the chin ; immediately on her parting with which, 

 she involuntarily shook her head, making her usual noise in endeavouring to 

 speak. The next day he fixed the conductor round her temples and throat, and 

 gave slight shocks, by touching sometimes her chin, othertimes her teeth or 

 cheeks, with the communicant wire. This she disagreeably, though advan- 

 tageously, felt, her jaws hereby admitting their being opened a little. The next 

 day he increased the shocks considerably, by which, though she very discontent- 

 edly bore them, she became capable of opening her mouth to the width of an 

 inch, and of articulating an imperfect, though with difficulty, an intelligible 

 sound. The next day she very reluctantly received several smart shocks, and at 

 last unexpectedly, the air being very electric, to such a degree, as to deprive her 

 of her senses; and she remained for J an hour strongly convulsed. The next 

 day, after the first shock, she spoke so as to be tolerably well understood, telling 

 us that the shocks were frequently vastly severe for her to bear ; but that as she 

 was fully sensible of the advantage she had already received by them, she would 

 gladly submit, in hopes of a further advantage. She was even then incapable of 

 bringing her tongue without her teeth, and of moving it without great difficulty, 

 complaining it seemed very large and heavy. On inspecting her mouth, which 

 she was able to open to almost its usual width, he discovered nothing particular, 

 but an extraordinary turgescence, without induration, of the sublingual glands. 

 After this she received about 20 shocks daily on her tongue, and other parts, for 



