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After about a fortnight, the convulfions left her, 
and her ileeps were longer and more quiet; but the 
rigidity continued the fame. After this, fuch parts 
of her body, as were thought expedient, were made 
part of the eleBric circuit , and were fhook by the 
explofion of the charged vial. Thefe applications 
were at firft more particularly made to the Temporal 
and Malfeter mufcles (the parts firft affetfted) and to 
the mufcles of the neck and arms; afterwards to 
thofe of her back, hips, thighs, and legs. Care 
was taken to moderate the lhocks in a manner, not 
to be too levere ; andfhe was eledtrifed every fecond, 
and fometimes every third day. 
The fits, as I juft now mentioned, and which were 
of the epileptic kind, left her in about a fortnight 
from her being ele&rifed, and have never fince re- 
turned, even in the flighted degree. In about a 
fortnight more her jaw was loofer, and the mufcles 
of her neck and arms had a large fhare of motion : and 
it was very obfervable, that as her mufcles increafed 
in their power of motion, they increafed in their fize, 
and the patient in her ftrength. By the end of Ja- 
nuary, not to be too tedious in my narration, by 
continuing the ele&ricity, every mufcle in her body 
was loofe, and fubfervient to her will ; and fhe could 
not only hand upright, but walk, and can even run 
like other children of her age. With her ffrength, 
fhe has fo far recovered her flefh and colour, that her 
prefent appearance is that of a reafonably healthy 
child ; and her breath has quite loft its late offenftvc 
fmell. The only parts of her body not quite fo loofe 
as the reft, are the Temporal and Malfeter mufcles, 
which were the parts firft affe&ed by the difeafe. 
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