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Jpecuhm oris , as to admit my little finger between 
them. 
The m a {Jeter and temporal mufcles, from their 
contraction, felt vaitly tenfe, and rigid, being par- 
ticularly painful on our predure thereon, or endea- 
vour to open her mouth ; the genio-hyoidei mufcles 
appeared alike circumftanced, and the platyfma- 
rnyoidcs on the right fide very often greatly convulfed. 
Matters thus circumftanced, after every ufual 
method judicioufiy adminiftered by Mr. Guddrige of 
Brent, her furgeon, to little avail, I had but fmall 
hopes from medicine ; therefore recommended elec- 
tricity ; on which account, (he, having no opportunity 
of its being done in the country, came to her lodgings, 
taken in town for that purpofe, on January 15, when* 
fhe being fomewhat inclined to be plethoric, and her 
menfes not hitherto interrupted, I ordered fourteen 
ounces of blood to be taken off, and the next day 
gave her a few flight (the feathered gnomon rifing not 
above the horizontal) eledtrical diocks on the leg of 
the difeafed fide; fhe immediately felt an agreeable 
feniation therein. 
This procefs was daily repeated, with a gradual 
increafe of the vis eledlrica , fometimes plus , fometimes 
minus , electrifying her for fix or feven days, by which 
time fhe became much ftronger, and capable of 
walking alone tolerably welh 
I now ((lie being, as to her jaw, and fpeech, as at 
firfi) feveral times full-charged her with the eleCtric 
matter, difeharging it alternately from the majjeters> 
her temples, and under the chin ; immediately on 
her parting with which, die, involuntarily, daook her 
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