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with fuch little relief as is above-mentioned, and I 
never have heard more of her. I with indeed the 
had tried it a while longer, as it bid fo fair to do her 
fervice ; and this was the only cafe, which gave us 
any reafonable hopes from its ufe. 
Another young girl, about fixteen, whofe right arm 
was paralytic, on being eleCtrifed the fecond time, 
became univerfally paralytic, and remained fo about 
a fortnight ; when the increafed palfy v/as removed 
indeed by the medicines, which her cafe indicated ; 
but the fir ft difeafed arm remained as before. I 
fhould have mentioned too, that this arm was greatly 
wafted, in comparifon of the other. However, not- 
withftanding the former bad accident, I had a mind 
to try the electricity on her again, which we renewed, 
and after about three or four days ufe, fhe became 
the fecond time univerfally paralytic, and even loft 
her voice and tongue, and with difficulty could fwal- 
low: this confirmed me in my opinion, that the 
eleCtric fhocks had occafioned thefe fymptoms. We 
therefore omitted it, and the girl, though fhe grew 
better of her additional palfy (for fo I call it), re- 
mained as bad as before of her firft ; and, after about 
four months repeated courfe of medicines of dif- 
ferent kinds on her, fhe was difcharged incurable, 
and ftill remains as bad as ever. 
Thefe, Sir, are the only two cafes worth noticing, 
that have occurred to me, wherein it can be faid to 
have produced any remarkable effects at all : for on 
numbers of others, that have experienced it, I have 
not obferved any thing happen, except that, when the 
affected palfied limb is touched with the electrical 
conductor, a convulfive motion is produced imme- 
y G 2 diately ; 
