Wat/on. 329 
that it was the Tourmalin of the mo- 
derns (y). 
In 1762, a Letter to Dr: Huxham, 
containing fome Remarks on the Influenza 
of that year, and on the Dyfentery which 
fucceeded it (r). 
Obfervations upon the Effeds of Elec- 
tricity, applied to a Tetanus, or mufcular 
rigidity, of four months continuance. For 
^ the firft three weeks the ftiffnefs was con- 
fined to the jaw, but afterwards extended 
to a total rigidity of the fpine. Eledlriza- 
tion was continued for ten weeks with a 
fenfible advantage, and the girl was wholly 
reftored to health {s). 
In 1764, Dr. Watson laid before the 
Royal Society An Account of what ap- 
peared on opening the Body of an Afth- 
" matic Perfon." This was a young man, 
aged twenty-eight, who died after being 
affliiled with an afthma only two months. 
The lungs were found in an extraordinarily 
emphyfematous ftate, and the pulmonary 
{q) Phil, 7ra7if. Vol. li. p. 394. 
(r) lb. Vol. lii. p. 646. 
[s) lb. VoJ. liii. p. 10— '26. 
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