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  • Face of a man with paralysis of the cervical sympathetic nerve
  • Girl who had contraction with paralysis of the joints and muscles
  • Girl who had contraction with paralysis of the joints and muscles
  • Girl who had contraction with paralysis of the joints and muscles
  • Girl who had contraction with paralysis of the joints and muscles
  • Child possibly suffering from diphtheritic paralysis of the lips and tongue
  • Child possibly suffering from diphtheritic paralysis of the lips and tongue
  • Amyotrophic paralysis and wasting of the muscles of the left hand
  • Characteristic position of the scapula due to paralysis of the serratus magnus
  • Characteristic position of the scapula due to paralysis of the serratus magnus
  • Girl who had contraction with paralysis of the joints and muscles, after treatment
  • Girl who had contraction with paralysis of the joints and muscles, after treatment
  • Man whose left arm and shoulder were wasted as a result of infantile paralysis
  • Man whose left arm and shoulder were wasted as a result of infantile paralysis
  • Forearms and hands of a boy suffering from paralysis of the right ulnar nerve
  • Right hand and forearm of a boy suffering from paralysis of the ulnar nerve
  • Mademoiselle Hardouin miraculously cured of her paralysis at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • Action list in the event of acute flaccid paralysis: prevention of poliomyelitis in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2001.
  • A treatise on medical electricity, theoretical and practical : and its uses in the treatment of paralysis, neuralgia and other diseases / by Julius Althaus.
  • Health facility action plan in the event of acute flaccid paralysis: treating polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.
  • Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.
  • A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life. With an appendix containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago, and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica, and other neuralgic affections and certain forms of paralysis / By George E. Day.
  • Primula veris L. Primulaceae Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Lyte (1578) calls them Cowslippe, Petie mulleyn, Verbasculum odoratum, Primula veris, Herbae paralysis and Artheticae. Along with cowslips and oxeslips, he says they are 'used dayly among other pot herbes, but in Physicke there is no great account of them. They are good for the head and synewes ...'. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
  • Primula veris L. Primulaceae. Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
  • Lathyrus vernus (L.)Bernh. Papilionaceae previously Orobus vernus L. (Linnaeus, 1753) Spring vetchling. Distribution: Europe to Siberia. The seeds of several Lathyrus species are toxic, and when eaten cause a condition called lathyrism. The chemical diaminoproprionic acid in the seeds causes paralysis, spinal cord damage, aortic aneurysm, due to poisoning of mitochondria causing cell death. Occurs where food crops are contaminated by Lathyrus plants or where it is eaten as a 'famine food' when no other food is available. It is the Orobus sylvaticus purpureus vernus of Bauhin (1671) and Orobus sylvaticus angustifolius of Parkinson (1640) - who records that country folk had no uses for it. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Lathyrus vernus (L.)Bernh. Papilionaceae previously Orobus vernus L. (Linnaeus, 1753) Spring vetchling. Distribution: Europe to Siberia. The seeds of several Lathyrus species are toxic, and when eaten cause a condition called lathyrism. The chemical diaminoproprionic acid in the seeds causes paralysis, spinal cord damage, aortic aneurysm, due to poisoning of mitochondria causing cell death. Occurs where food crops are contaminated by Lathyrus plants or where it is eaten as a 'famine food' when no other food is available. It is the Orobus sylvaticus purpureus vernus of Bauhin (1671) and Orobus sylvaticus angustifolius of Parkinson (1640) - who records that country folk had no uses for it. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Planche 4, Guérison de la paralysie, par l'électricité
  • Planche 3, Guérison de la paralysie, par l'électricité
  • Planche 1, Guerison de la paralysie, par l'electricite