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he fweated all over his body ; and having returned 
•home, lie felt as if a number of globules of blood 
flowed up his affedted arm, which made fo ftrong an 
impreflion upon him, that it frighted him ; but have- 
ing flripped his arm, no fort of alteration appeared. 
On the 31ft of March, he was able to take up a 
glafs of beer in the paralytic hand, to hold it fteady, 
and put it to his mouth, drinking to the health of all 
the company one after another; and flnce that time 
he helps himfelf at table with his right hand. When 
he came to me on the firfl: of April, he lifted from 
the ground, almofl: three feet, a weight of 3 3 lb. in 
the prefence of feveral perfons, which he was not able 
to do before, tho’ he had tried feveral times. On 
this day the arm was eledtrified again in the parts that 
required ; but as the fenfation in this arm was nearly 
equal to that of the other, he was no longer able to 
. undergo the {hocks, for an hour, as he ufed to do ; 
tho* he was very fenfible of the advantages gained by 
the eledtrical operation : however, he fainted away, and 
therefore we were forced to forbear a little. Befldes 
this, he was often fubjedt to a loofenefs ; which No- 
guez at Geneva was alfo. On the 4th of April in the 
evening, I expofed the paralytic arm once more to 
•the eledtrical fparks ; and as there always were feme 
perfons by at the operations, there was this time a 
Frenchman prefent, who had a megrim. He under- 
went the fhock twice, according to Mufchenbroek’s 
method ; and came to thank me next day for having 
cured the diferder of his head. O11 the 5 th of April, 
I again cledtrified my patient, and the fenfation was 
now nearly recovered in the paralytic arm, which 
was reflored to a healthy condition. He extended 
his 
