On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance.

  • Froriep, Robert, 1804-1861.
Date:
1850
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Credit: On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    muscles is of great iraportance in distinguishing paralysis caused by disease of the nervous system from rheumatic paralysis. The functions of the muscles are impaired in degrees varying from mere stiffness to the entire loss of all voluntary motion; whilst passive motion is possible, though sometimes restrained by the acute pain brought on in the joints and other parts. A feeling of stiffness some- times attends each voluntary movement of the muscles after they have been at rest, or an awk- wardness in their use is felt, rendering the patient's whole attention necessary when any act is to be performed, or a slight trembling follows each move- ment, which may gradually increase to complete paralysis agitans; and, added to this, there is a disagreeable sensation of weight or feeling of tension and stiffness of the affected limb, and not unfrequently lancinating pains, which, with the trembling, are increased by change of weather. This trembling is very often accompanied by a slight restriction of the full use of the part, and may, I think, be considered to arise from partial paralysis, or from suspension of the equi- librium between the antagonistic muscles, or from the continued half-involuntary effort to restore