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and the fecona intirely removed them. After this the 
Child gradually recovered its Undcrftanding and 
Speech, and is now perfectly well. 
About the fame Time, I was called to a young 
Girl in this Town, about ten Years of Age, who had 
been feized with Convulfions about three Days be- 
fore. At the Coming on of the Fit, fhe ufually com- 
plain’d of a violent Pain in her Belly and Loins, 
which, fhe laid, teem'd to draw her Bowels on an 
Heap: After this, (lie foon loti her Scnfes, and was 
vanouOy convuls'd * not much unlike one in an epi- 
leptic Fit. When the Violence of the Paroxyfm be- 
gan to abate, and the a little recovered her Senfes, 
the likened the . Pain to a Sword running through 
her. From the firft Seizure, fhe had feldom had an 
Hour's Interval betwixt the Fits. 1 order’d twelve 
Grains of Musk to be given her in a Clyfter, which 
was thrown up in the Decline of the Paroxyfm : 
Upon this the intlantly recover’d, and has never been 
fo afFe&ed fince; proper Care being taken to re- 
move the Stimulus which occationcd rhefe Spafms. 
Mr. Malpas , whom I have mentioned already, tells 
me. That, Fince he has feen the good Effeds of 
Musk, he has twice tried it h'mfelf with great Suc- 
cefs. — — A Gentleman’s Groom, having been kick’d 
by a Horfe on the Pit of the Stomach, was thereby 
immediately thrown into a violent Hiccup, \\ irh great 
Difficulty of Breathing, and ir. cedant Rcachings to 
vomit, the Stomach andDiaphragm being greatly con- 
v ii Ted. After Bleeding, cue. the Musk removed the 
Hiccups, &c. immediately. The other Cafe is more 
remarkable : A Farmer's Wife in the Country, as fhe 
lat at Table, was fuddenly feiz’d with an Inabi- 
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