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and three-quarters they could not fay that any meat or liquid wefj
down her throat. Being interrogated on this point, they owned thj
very frequently put fomething into her mouth but they concludi
that nothing went down her throat, becaufe lhe had no evacuatiol
and when they forced open her jaws at one time, and ke|
them open for fome time by putting in a itick between J
teeth, and pulled forward her tongue, and forced fomethij
down her throat, lhe coughed and ftrained, as if in danger I
be choaked. One thing, during the time lhe eat and drank nothiil
is remarkable, that her jaws were unlocked, and lhe recovered J
Ipeech, and retained it for feveral days, without any apparent caul
for the fame; lhe was quite fenfible, repeated feveral queftionsl
the ihorter catechifms ; told them that it was to no purpofe topi
any thing into her mouth, for that nothing went down her throal
as alfo that fometimes lhe underftood them when they fpoke to hel
By degrees her jaws thereafter fell, and lhe loft her fpeech.
Some time before I faw her lhe received fome fuftenance, v/iiel
water-gruel, &c. but threw it up, at leaft for the moft part, im J
diately. When they put the ftick Between her teeth, m en tio n !
above, two or three of her teeth were broken. It was at this bread
they put in any thing into her mouth. I caufed them to b r in g her o i
of bed, and give her fomething to drink. They gave her w h e l
Her neck was contrafted, her chin fixed on her breaft, nor couid b |
any force be pulled back; lhe put her chin and mouth into t J
dilh with the whey, and I perceived lhe fucked it at the above-mel
tioned breach as a child would fuck the breaft, and immediate!»
threw it up again, as her parents told me lhe ufed to do, and ill
endeavoured with her hand to dry her mouth and chin. Her foJ
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head was contracted and wrinkled; her cheeks full, red, and
blooming. Her parents told me that lhe llept a great deal, and
foundly, perfpired,fometimes, and now and then emitted pretty large
quantities of blood at her mouth, i
For about two years paft they have been wont to carry her to the
1 door once every day, and lhe would Ihew figns of tineafinefs when
they negleited it at the ufual time. Laft fummer, after giving her
to drink ,of the water of the well of Strathconnen, lhe crawled to the
door on her hands and feet without any help. She is at prefent in a
very languid way, and ftill throws up what fhe drinks.
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