fame manner, but the conftrldion was removed in a 
week. When thefe fpafmodic affedions left her, the 
did not recover her eye-fight for fome days, the optic 
nerve being probably oppreffed; but the left eye al- 
ways recovered fooner than the right, being never fo 
ftrongly convulfed. None of the other mufcles ap- 
peared to be affeded, except in tlie paroxyfms. 
While the pins were in the cefophagus^ the furgeon 
was utterly at a lofs where to dired his inftruments, 
as there was no certain indication where the pins were 
lodged. And the phylician’s pradice could be only 
palliative, ufing bleeding, with anodyne and lubri- 
cating medicines, according as the various fymptoms 
occafionally required. In this manner things went 
on to the beginning of Auguft, when a fmall painful 
tumour, the fize of a man’s thumb, appeared upon 
the right (boulder, which difappeared in the com- 
pafs ot a week without coming to fuppuration. Af- 
terwards fuch another fmall tumour appeared upon 
the left Ihoulder, which increafed, and, by the care 
of Mr. Crump, the attending furgeon, was brought 
to fuppuration, and opened by him, Augull; 20, when 
a large table fpoonful of matter was difeharged. Up- 
on removing the dreffings, the next day, a larger 
quantity of matter flowed out, and with it ifllied one 
of the pins. Mr. Crump then examined with his 
probe if he could find either of the others, but could 
not: however, the day following, the. other two 
pins were alfo difeharged at the fame wound'. Thefe 
pins were all of the fame length, each meafuring five 
quarters of an inch. The wound at which thde pins 
were difeharged was upon the fuperior part of the 
fcapuhi. After the girl had received her cure, and 
was 
