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the paralytic parts were rubbed with vinegar and 
muftard, and he took the following medicines. 
Pulv valerian 9fs 
— Caff. Ruf. gr. 4. 
Spec. Diambrae gr. iij. 
Syrup. Croci q. f. m. f. Bolus ter die fumend. 
ex hauftu feri finapini. 
A cataplafm of bread and milk had been daily 
applied to affwage the inflammation and fwelling 
of the eye, and a decoction of thyme and muf- 
tard was employed as a gargarifm to help the 
fuppreffion of voice. Soon as he began vifibly 
to mend, he had fometimes loud and fudden burSts 
of laughter, and fometimes only a long conti- 
nued filent fimpering, a fpecies of convulsion not un- 
like that called by the Greek phyficians Kvvmcs ma<r- 
fxog t fave only that this was not attended with a fever. 
When he attempted to walk, he had fuch geflures as 
accompany the St. Vitus’s dance ; and feemed a per- 
fect idiot, throwing eagerly forward one leg, and 
dragging the other trembling after. His appetite is 
now naturally moderate, his lleep found and refresh- 
ing, his hearing acute, he fpeaks, but drawls out his 
words rather indiffin&ly than articulately, the para- 
lytic arm and thigh ale again animated, and recover 
but Slowly their flexibility and extenfion. He tells 
me that he remembred nothing from the moment he 
received the injury, to the time he recovered and fat 
up; there was a temporary privation of the intellec- 
tual faculties. It may be worth while to oblerve, 
that though feveral large Sloughs were thrown off 
from 
