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eafe as formerly before this contraction, and conti- 
nued well till on February ninth or tenth, when be- 
ing obliged to wafii clothes from morning till night, 
that fame evening after the wafting was finifhed, 
fhe felt her fingers and arm grow painful firft, and in 
lefs than an hour’s time they contracted, as they had 
done before. Attempts were immediately ufed by 
herfelf and the family to draw the fingers open, but 
in vain, and whenever they tried to force them open, 
they gave the girl molt violent pain through that whole 
arm. On this fhe was brought back to our infirmary 
again, Feb. 13, and electrified as before, in the pre- 
fence of myfelf and feveral gentlemen of this place. 
Her hand was now as clofely contracted as feemed 
pofiible for the fingers to be drawn, and file had no 
fenfation of heac or cold upon it, nor pain. The wire 
from the fufpended phial being tied round that wrift, 
file applied her hand to the ele&rified conductor, and 
received repeated ftrokes, and fome very ftrong ones, 
for 40 minutes before file felt any pain from it, 
or the fingers relaxed any at all ; and we rubbed 
her frequently with the flefii-brufh betwixt whiles, 
and tried to ftir her fingers. After- about 45 mi- 
nutes, flie fa d, each time fhe received the eleCtrical 
fhock, it gave her much pain, and then Jier firft 
finger began to move a little, after that the fecond, 
and the third, and the thumb, till at length they 
were all opened and relaxed, and by repeated 
frictions and electrical ftrokes, for about an hour and 
20 minutes, the motion of the hand was quite re- 
ft 0 red. I then directed it to be rubbed well with 
opodeldoc and covered with flannel, to keep it 
warm, and heard no more of her till feven o’clock 
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