a Dr. fothergill’s Account of a 
ann agutter, a girl of ten years of age, of a pale, 
emaciated habit, was admitted an out-patient at the 
Northampton Hofpital on the 6th of June laft. From 
her father’s account it appeared (for Hie was fpeechlefs 
and with difficulty fupported from falling by two affif- 
tants) that ffie had for fix weeks laboured under violent 
convulfive motions, which affected the whole frame, 
from which the had very ffiort intermiffions, except 
during deep ; that the difeafe had not only impaired her 
memory and intellectual faculties, but of late had de- 
prived her of the ufe of fpeech. 
Volatile and fetid medicines were now recom- 
mended, and the warm bath every other night ; but with 
no better fuccefs, except that the nights which had been 
refllefs became fbmewhat more compofed. Blifters and 
anti-ipafmodics were directed, and particularly the 
flowers of zinc, which were continued till the beginning 
of July, but withovit the leaft abatement of the fymp- 
toms; when her father growing impatient of fruitlefs 
attendance at the hofpital, I recommended, as a dernier 
refort, a trial of electricity, under the management of 
the Rev. Mr. underwood, an ingenious electrician. 
After this I heard no more of her till the firfl of Auguft, 
when her father came to inform me that his daughter 
was well, and delired ffie might have her difcharge. To 
i which, 
