![Letter from Robert G. Wilson to William W. Woodward (October 24, 1803)](https://blog.richmond.edu/jerkshistory/files/2018/07/Wilson1803-1080.jpg)
Letter from Robert G. Wilson to William W. Woodward (October 24, 1803)
“Two days ago I beheld for the first time…a subject of the very singular bodily exercise common among us…. He wept sore for a long time, & was frequently wrought for a short space as men are in a convulsion fit….”