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himfelf better upon rubbing, as before. This third 
time he extended his hand and fingers more than 
once, without the afliftance of his other hand : never- 
thelefs, as he complained of very fharp blows from 
the fparks, I changed my firft method the 18th, and 
mounting upon a box filled with pitch, I took the 
tube in one hand, and, by means of a key which I 
held in the other, I touched him where I thought 
proper, in order to draw the fparks ; but as the fhocks 
were very ftrong, I placed under the tube two flagons 
filled with water, making a communication of the 
water with the tube, by means of an iron wire. In 
viewing the naked arm, it plainly appeared it was 
become more flefhy. The night after he flept better 
than the foregoing between the 17th and 1 8th, when, 
tho 5 he found himfelf much fatigued all over, his 
fleep was often interrupted by very fharp pains in the 
upper part of his arm ; which part, neverthelefs, I 
had not touched at all ; but he had that day under- 
gone very ftrong fhocks. He alfo felt great heat in 
his hand together with thefe pains, and this heat was 
felt almofl every time after he had been electrified, 
both in the hand and the whole length of the arm. 
On the 19th, aoth, and aift, fome affairs pre- 
vented my continuing the operation; but I advifed 
him to exercife his arm every way he poflibly could, 
having obferved, that even the mufcles of the arm 
leafl: affedted, after fo long a time of inactivity, were 
much weakened ; and the patient was gradually cap- 
able of taking up his glove from the ground feveral 
times fucceffiveyl, and even to put on and take off his 
hat with the paralytic hand, which he alfo repeated 
the following days. On the 2 ad, I obferved, upon 
