98  Mr.  Partington  on  a Cure  of  a 
were  prefent  when  I firft  waited  on  this  unhappy  young 
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lady,  you  will  recollect  the  condition  in  which  we  found 
her.  Her  head  was  drawn  down  over  her  right  fhoulder; 
the  back  part  of  it  was  twilled  fo  far  round,  that  her 
face  turned  obliquely  towards  the  oppofite  fide,  by  which 
deformity  fhe  was  difabled  from  feeing  her  feet,  or  the 
fteps  as  file  came  down  flairs.  The  Jlerno-maJloideus 
mufcle  was  in  a Hate  of  contraction  and  rigidity.  She 
had  no  material  pain  on  this  fide  of  her  neck  ; but,  owing 
to  the  extreme  tenfion  of  the  teguments  of  the  left  fide, 
file  had  a pain  continually,  and  often  it  was  very  violent, 
particularly  in  fudden  changes  of  the  weather.  Her 
pulfe  was  weak,  quick,  and  irregular.  She  was  fubjeCt 
to  a great  irritability,  had  frequently  a little  fever,  which 
came  on  of  an  evening,  and  left  her  before  morning ; 
her  lpirits  were  generally  exceedingly  opprefled,  and  at 
times  flie  was  llightly  paralytic. 
She  dated  the  origin  of  her  diforder  at  fomething 
more  than  two  years  from  that  period.  She  was  fuddenly 
feized,  going  out  of  a warm  room  into  the  cold  air,  with 
a pain  upon  the  back  of  her  head,  which  admitted  of 
fmall  abatement  for  fome  months,  contracting  gradually 
the  mufcles  to  the  melancholy  deformity  we  then  be- 
held ; and  notwithftanding  every  prudent  means  had  been 
ufed  to  fubdue  it,  and  fhe  flriClly  adhered  to  every  article 
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