Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1804-04-14

| hour an evident improvement ofthe sight
was perceived. The operation was re.
pealed the same evening. The following
| day the patient could distinguish the
outlines OF bodies; and by three days re-
petition ofthe galvanism, her sight became
toerabiy distinct.
a young woman, 81 years of age, of
a melanchohc temperament, after several
| slight attacks, was seized with hemiplesia
oil the right side, which affected particu-
larry the arm, face and eye. The other
symptoms yielded to blood letting and the
ordinary remedies but the eye remained
liked, with pain seated in its muscles.
len minutes ga!vanization produced an
/ abundant How OF tears from the Affect
cd eye, and from the nostrl on the same
SIDE, which from the first attack, had con-
tirued dry the pain felt in the muscles
o! the eye was also greatly alleviated.
he patient could turn the eye from side
to side, but still with great difficulty elc-
waited or depressed il and she felt a ge-
neral sense of weight over the whole eye.
"A repetition of the operation, the next
day but one, restored the free motion of
the organ, and removed every uneasy SEN
sation.
Besides the above, u case of hydropho.
b'a is related, which appeared to be cured
by the same application. a man was bit
IN the thumb by mad dog, and month
afterwards, CINE to consult Nj. RosSi, ON
account OF the pains which he felt in the
arm, IN the back, and particularly in the
part which had been bitten. The actual
cautery was applied to the thumb, and re-
move, ;;s%:s: pain but, in few days after,
the pains returned, accompanied with
symptoms of hydruphoba. The patient
could not bear the sight of water without
shuddering; an inflammation of the throat
prevented his swallowing even bread well
chewed and he Showed constant dispo.
sitlon 10 bite those around him.
In this state he was conducted to NJ.
Ros't, who, observing that he could not
bear the sight of water, nor even of shin
ing bodies, prepared, in an adjoining room,
a pile OF fifty pairs Of zinc and silver with
intermediate discs of pasteboard mois-
tened with solution of muriate Of ammo
ma. lie then employed strips of coarse
paper mostened, as a conductor, on which
he made the patient stand barefoot; and,
at the moment that he opened his mouth
to bite M Rossi thrust into it the extre-
nifty of a conductor communicating with
the other extremity OF the pile. The man
appeared to suffer greatly from the opera
ton, which after repeated shocks, weak
ened him so much, that he was unable to
support himself: it was then continued as
he lay on the ground, till he became CO.
vered with drops of sweat. 2 his was
done ut two in The afternoon and at six
the next morning he went of himself to
VI. RoS$f, to tell him he was completely
cured, as he felt TO pain, nor any difficulty
OF swallowing, and had lost all his aversion
to water and liquids: he could not be per-
suaded, however, to submit again to the
operation. Il few days after this, upon
feeling some slight pains, he was appre-
hensive of return of the hydrophoba
but they disappeared on the re application
OF The galvanism. This cure, Nj. hossi
observes, was performed in the presence
OF numerous witnesses. The sensibility
OF the patient was SO great, that shocks
which affected others merely in the fingers,
extended in him to the shoulders.