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Page 584 - I scorn to allude to the stale subject. I say Nolo, not Malo: content, for my part, if Harry has returned from one expedition and t'other with a whole skin. And have I ever said he was so much as bruised? Have I not, for fear of exciting my fair young reader, said that he was as well as ever he had been in his life?
Page 482 - ... red spots, which they supposed were occasioned by those prickings. The limbs too were found more capable of voluntary motion, and seemed to receive strength. A man, for instance, who could not the first day lift the lame hand from off his knee, would the next day raise it four or five inches, the third day higher; and on the fifth day was able, but with a feeble languid motion, to take off his hat.
Page 608 - ... was eafily made tight by luting it with pafte. We had a hole through the cover, in which was fixed a wooden pipe, nearly perpendicular.
Page 482 - Perhaps some permanent advantage might have been obtained, if the electric shocks had been accompanied with proper medicine and regimen, under the direction of a skilful physician. It may be, too, that a few great strokes, as given in my method, may not be so proper as many small ones; since, by the account from Scotland, of a case, in which two hundred shocks from a phial were given daily, it seems, that a perfect cure has been made.
Page 608 - I could contrive a ftrait pipe to go through a large cafk of cold water, it might anfwer the end of a worm. We then cut a pewter...
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Page 609 - We bored a 4 hole through a cafk, with a proper defcent, in which we 4 fixed the pewter pipe, and made both holes in the cafk tight, ' and filled it with fea-water; the pipe ftuck without the cafk ' three inches on each fide. Having now got my apparatus ' in readinefs, I put feven quarts of fea-water, and an ounce * of foap into the pot, and fet it on fire. The cover was * kept from rifing by a prop of wood to the bow. We fixed ' on the head, and into it the long wooden pipe above-men' tioned, which...