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fore the Society ; which the author de/ires may be 
done, in cale thefe obfervations Should be judged 
ufeful. 
The other paper incloied was lent me by the fame 
hand, to be like wile prefented to the Society, as a 
well-attefled inffimee of the electrical power in the 
cure of a palfy. To the other testimonies I have 
Subjoined what Dr. Whytt fays in his letter to me, 
by way of Strengthening the evidence. I Shall only 
add, that lince Mr. Brydone, the author of this ac- 
count, has omitted telling how long the patient has 
continued in perfedt health lince the operation, it 
appears She mult have been well for Some months 
before the date of his paper ; becaufe, before the end 
of laft Summer, Dr. Whytt transmitted the Same 
cafe to me, which I then returned, in order to have 
it drawn up in a fuller manner, and with other 
vouchers belides the gentleman, who performed the 
cure. The DoCtor has been fo good as to comply 
with my requeSt, having procured a more ample ac- 
count of the circumstances from Mr. Brydone, and 
the atteSlation of two ministers, befides that of the 
patient herfelf. * My difficulties being thus re- 
moved. 
* After this paper was read at the Society, Dr. Pringle having 
acquainted Dr. Whytt, that Mr. Patrick Brydone had omitted, in 
his account, the name of the parifh, where the woman lived, the 
time when (he was cured, and alfo that he had not fully dated his 
paper ; Dr. Whytt fome time after wrote to Dr. Pringle, that hav- 
ing defired Mr. Brydone to furnifh him with thefe particulars, he had 
received for anfwer, “ That the woman, on whom the cure was 
<c performed, had lived all her life in the parifh of Coldinghame, 
“ and for the laft twelve years in that town : That her father had 
“ died 
