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refpiratien and pulfe preferve their natural 
Hate, or at leaft deviate very little from it. 
The duration of the paroxyfm is fome- 
times of fome minutes, at others of fome 
hours, and at others again of fome days. 
It is very feldom that the patient is fenfi- 
ble of what is going on around him, or 
that he retains the flighteft recollection of 
what happened in the fit. 
In this difeafe, as we have juft obferved, 
the mufcles remain in the fame ftate of 
contraction they were put in by the ani¬ 
mal, the moment preceding the attack. 
I have afferted that the relaxation of thefe 
organs depends upon a new circuit of elec¬ 
tricity, and of a change of the ftate of this 
fluid. Thus the contraction will, not 
ceafe until the will refumes its rights over 
the body it governs, and caufes the circuit 
to take place, or till an extraneous force 
is employed inftead of it. 
From hence we may derive an expla- 
P 3 nation 
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