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After warm bathing had been fo long tried with- 
out fenlibly good effect, cold bathing, recommended 
by Hippocrates * for the cure of this difeafe, was 
directed ; and fhe was dipped feveral times, without 
being apparently the better or worfe for it. 
From the end of September, as what had been 
done hitherto had not been able to prevent the rigi- 
dity extending itfelf, we defifted from attempting to 
relieve her by medicine, and determined to nourifh 
and fupport her ; and wait to obferve, though it was 
fcarce to be expedted, whether nature unaffifl- 
ed would point out any crifis for her relief. This 
attention was continued to the middle of November, 
without any other alteration than that her convulfions 
increafed in their force; and every day, by thofe 
who were about her, was expelled to be the lad: 5 
and which was an event, as the profpedt was fo un- 
promidng, much to be wifhed for. Dreadful how- 
ever as her fituation was, fhe was {fill alive: we were 
dedrous therefore of omitting nothing, that in the 
lead; might be expedted to relieve her. 
I had heretofore many times obferved, that in para- 
lytic limbs, the mufcles of which had for a confider- 
able time ceafed to be fubfervient to the will of the 
patient, I had been able, by the means of eledtricity, 
to make any mufcle I thought proper contradt itfelf, 
and adt as a mufcle, without the patient’s being able 
to controul it. I had feen in one inftance the good 
effedts of eledtricity, in reftoring to the hands and 
arms of a paralytic almoft their accuftomed ftrength, 
and voluntary motion; but thefe good effedts, the 
greateft 
* Ilfcl vov<rwv 3 Lib. III. 
