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XX. The Cafe of a paralytic Patient cured 
hy an electrical Application , inclofed in a 
Letter from DoElor Himfel, at Riga, to 
Jacob de Caftro Sarmento, M*D, F. R.S, 
Tranfated from the French. 
Read May 17,/^vN the iothof March 1752, a young 
man 20 years of age, whofe name 
is Mauve , in his infancy had a fall, by which his 
right arm became paralytic, of which he never had 
the lead; ufe from five years old. He was brought 
to me in order to attempt his cure by eleCtricky ; 
and he was in much the fame condition with the pa- 
tient cured by Mr. Jalabert at Geneva ; who could 
not move his right hand in the lead, and was after- 
wards able to help himfelf, and follow his trade. 
All the fingers of the paralytic hand were difabled, 
and the hand was fo bent towards the elbow, as to 
form a right angle ; the hand v/as of a red and blue 
colour, as if it had been druck with frod. The ex- 
tenfor mufcles of the wrid: and fingers had an atro- 
phy , and the whole fore-arm was fiirivled ; befides 
which, all his right fide was paralytic, as well as the 
right arm, at the beginning of his difeafe ; and the 
right foot v/as very much weakened. 
He approached the electrical tube, and touched it 
for dome minutes ; till the thenar , hypothenar , anti- 
thenar , indicator , and the interojfei , as well as the 
fingers of the lame hand, differed electrical diocks 
*cne after another. 
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