Cure by Electricity. 5 
fymptoms, and therefore could not be called critical, but 
merely the effed of the electrical ftimulus. Having 
given her parents fome general directions as to her regi- 
men, Sec. I took my leave, with a itrong injunction to 
make me acquainted in cafe fhe fhould happen to re- 
lap fe. Before I conclude, it may not be improper to 
obferve, that fome time ago I was fortunate enough to 
cure a boy who had long had the St. Vitus’s dance 
(though in a much lefs degree) by electricity. A violent 
convullive difeafe, fomewhat fimilar to the above, though, 
if I recoiled right, not attended with the aphonia , was 
fuccefsfully treated in the fame way by Dr. watson, and 
is recorded in the Philofophical Tranfadions. May we 
not then conclude, that thefe fads alone, and more might, 
perhaps be produced, are fufficient to intitle eledricity 
to a diftinguifhed place in the clafs of antifpafmodics ?. 
I am, &c. 
