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his fingers, and contracted them at pleafure, could 
move the carpus and metacarpus at will ; he took oft' 
his hat, and put it on, and had gained fo much 
ftrength in his hand and arm, that he raifed a forty- 
pound weight to the height of three feet from the 
ground. 
Such was the ftate of my patient after having elec- 
trified him fourteen times from the loth of March, 
almoft an hour each time. I did not touch his foot, 
which was a little paralytic from the beginning, hav- 
ing never been very troublefome to him. 
From the 5th to the 27th of April, he was elec- 
trified eleven times more ; during which time the 
ftrength of his arm ftill increafed : he not only raifed 
above 40 lb. weight with his right hand, moving it 
backwards and forwards at the fame time, but he 
wrote his name, Andrew Mauve , with a craion, with 
the fame hand, which he had not been capable of 
moving for fifteen years before. 
John Godfrey Tefke. 
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