8 Dr. Mackenzie’s Account of 
to the minifter of the parilh, and David Rofs, at the 
Craig of Strath-Carron, their neighbour and one of the 
elders of the parilh, who verified from his own know- 
ledge all that is above related. The prefent fituation and 
appearances of the patient were carefully examined this 
aiftof Odober, 1767, by Dr. Alexander Mackenzie, 
phyfician at New Tarbat; who likewife, in the month 
of October, 1772, being informed that the patient was 
recovering and ate and drank, vifited her, and found 
her condition to be as follows : about a year preceding 
this laft date, her parents one day returning from 
their country labours (having left their daughter as 
for fome years before fixed to her bed) were greatly 
furprized to find her fitting on her hams, on the fide 
of the houfe oppofite to her bed-place, fpinning 
with her mother’s diftaff. I alked, whether (lie ever 
ate or drank? whether fhe had any of the natural 
evacuations? whether fhe ever fpoke or attempted to 
fpeak? And was anfwered, that fhe fometimes crumbled a 
bit of oat or barley cake in the palm of her hand, as if to 
feed a chicken ; that fhe put little crumbs of this into the 
gap of her teeth, rolled them about for fome time in 
her mouth, and then fucked out of the palm of her hand 
a little water, whey, or milk ; and this once or twice a 
day, and even that by compulfion : that the ege/la were in 
proportion 
