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and ninety ftrokes in a minute. But during this in- 
terval the poor patient was feized many times, both 
in the night and in the day, with violent convullions 
in thofe mufcles of the eyes, face, and right arm, 
which had any mobility left. Thefe were fo fevere, 
that, in her weak and wretched (late, her attend- 
ants imagined every attack would put an end to her 
diftreffes. 
In this ftate, partly from the feverity of the difeafe 
and partly from the very fmall quantity of food which 
could be given to her, and which was only through 
a fmall opening made by extracting two of her teeth 
and without which fhe mud; inevitably have been 
ftarved, fhe was emaciated in a mod extraordinary 
manner. Her belly was contracted, and pulled in- 
wards towards the fpine. Her whole body, to the 
touch, felt hard and dry, and much more like that 
of a dead animal than a living one. This, added to 
the very great diftortion of her back and lower limbs, 
heightened the difagreeable fpeCtacle, and called to 
my mind that admirable paftage of * Aretseus, who, 
when treating of and contemplating this difeafe, calls 
it “ inhumana calamitas, injucundus afpeCtus, trifte 
“ intuenti fpeCtaculum, et malum infanabile.” And 
hefubjoins, that “ their diftortions are fuch, that they 
“ cannot be known by their moft intimate friends 
which in the cafe before us was moft ftriCtly true. 
During the continuance of this diforder, which 
had lafted now more than four months, nothing had 
been omitted that either Dr. Morton or myfelf 
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