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Received O&ober 20, 1765. 
X. Account of a locked yaw , and Paralyjis , 
awed by Ele&ricity : by Dr. Edward Spry, 
c/'Totnefs, in a Letter to Charles Morton, 
M. D. Sec. R. S. 
Read reb. 19, /"'I ATM AiR INE Smellidge, of 
Ditford, a girl aged eighteen, of a 
firong healthy conftitution, took, at the accidental 
death of a friend, a great fright, and the next day 
(Eafier-day, 1765) at his funeral, fell ill of very 
levere convulfive fits, which lafted, with flight inter- 
mifilons, upwards of a month. 
From the firfF attack, fhe never fpoke, though 
otherwife fenfible ; loon after her jaws became quite 
fixt, fo that Hie was obliged to be fed with thin panada, 
and the like, {trained between her teeth, being not 
able to have them opened but a very little way, even 
by a wedge made lor that purpole. She became 
likewife' paralytic from her hip down, on the right 
fide. 
January 10, 1766. She confulted me, when I 
found her incapable of fupporting herfelf without 
affifiance, her leg and thigh of the right fide very 
torpid with a lofs of motion, and much more flaccid 
than the other, though not emaciated. She was 
incapable of uttering the lead articulate found, or 
even of having her teeth fo far feparated by the 
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