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when, after having violently heated herfelf by four 
hours dancing, on a fudden her power of fpeech 
returned, and it has continued perfectly free ever 
dnce. 
What is hill further remarkable in this cafe is, 
that during the whole time of this patient’s conti- 
nuing fpeechlefs, her life was rendered yet more 
uncomfortable by her having, from the injury to her 
brain by the fpafrns, forgot how to write, fo as to 
exprefs her meaning that way : but upon the re- 
covery of her fpeech, this faculty likewife returned, 
which file has retained ever iince. During the fe- 
verity of this difeafe, which continued feveral weeks, 
almoft every day of which, from the number and 
violence of the convulfions, I feared would be the 
patient’s lad, nothing was left unattempted, which 
I imagined could tend to prevent the return of the 
lpafms, or leffen their effedts. My endeavours fo 
far happily fucceeded, that her fits did not return 5 
but the confequences of them continued, more par- 
ticularly her inability to fpeak. After fome months 
however, when flie was recruited in her drength, I 
was defirous of trying the effects of electricity, more 
particularly applied about her throat. This was ac- 
cordingly attempted ; but fuch was the date of her 
nerves, and their fenfibility to its ededts, that elec- 
trizing brought back the fits, which again affedted 
her fight : fo that I was compelled to defid, led, in 
endeavouring to redore her fpeech, I might not only 
fail in this attempt, but might bring podibly on a 
permanent blindnefs. I determined therefore to trud 
the whole to time, which has happily removed all » 
her complaints. 
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