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XCIV. A further Account of the FfeSls of 
LleElricity in the Cure of fome Dijeafes *; 
In a Letter from Mr. Patrick Bry clone to 
Dr. Robert Whytt, Profejfor of Medicine 
in the Univerfty of Edinburgh, and RR.S. 
Coldinghame, January 9th, 1758. 
Read May 11. A Young woman of Alton, a village 
y~y about two miles from this place, 
had her right leg drawn back by a contraction of 
the mufcles that bend the knee, fo that the had not 
been able to put that foot to the ground for near a 
twelvemonth. She had taken the advice of fome 
Surgeons in the country, and had ufed feveral reme- 
dies to no purpofe. At lall, hearing of the cure of 
the paralytic woman, whofe cafe I fent you fome 
time ago, fhe infilled on being brought hither ; and 
underwent a courfe of ele&rical fhocks for near two 
months, receiving every day at leaf: fifty or fixty in 
the following manner. She fat clofe by the machine, 
and grafping the phial in her hand, fhe prefented the 
wire to the barrel or condudor, and drew the fparks 
from it for about half a minute. The phial being 
thus charged, fhe then touched her knee with the wire, 
and thereby received fuch fevere ftrokes, as would 
fometimes inflantly raife a blifter on the part. The 
joint was at laft fo much relaxed, as that file could 
walk home with the help of a crutch, tho’ her leg 
was fo weak, that fhe had very little ufe of it. After 
* For the firft account, fee part fir ft, p. 392. 
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