Observations upon the effects of electricity, applied to a tetanus, or muscular rigidity, of four months continuance. In a letter to the Royal Society ... / [Sir William Watson].

  • Watson, William, Sir, 1715-1787.
Date:
1763
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Credit: Observations upon the effects of electricity, applied to a tetanus, or muscular rigidity, of four months continuance. In a letter to the Royal Society ... / [Sir William Watson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 OBSERVATIONS UPON THE Effeds of ELECTRICITY. To the ROYAL SOCIETY. Read at R. S. loFeb. 1763. Gentlemen, EVER fince your eftablifhment, the communicating the hif- tory of uncommon difeafes has feldom failed of a favourable reception by you, and has been frequently thought to merit a place in your journals and regifter-books. This has em¬ boldened me to lay before you the following hiftory: Catherine Field, a girl in the Foundling Hofpital, aged about feven Years, and otherwife a healthy child, having been difor- dered a few days with what were confidered as complaints arifing from worms, was obferved, on Thurfday, July 8, 1762, to open her mouth with great difficulty. This particular circumftance in- creafed fo much, that by the Sunday following, when I firfi law her, her teeth were fo much confined, it was with difficulty that A 2 even