Appendix to the papers on the nerves, republished from the Royal Society's Transactions; containing consultations and cases. Illustrative of the facts announced in those papers / [Sir Charles Bell].

  • Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Appendix to the papers on the nerves, republished from the Royal Society's Transactions; containing consultations and cases. Illustrative of the facts announced in those papers / [Sir Charles Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thin foetid matter. In August last, while coughing or sneezing, a substance which he describes as cylindrical and hollow, about an inch in length, dropped from his right ear : from this time the discharge ceased. Three weeks after this period, his wife first observed that his face was dis- torted to one side. On presenting himself to his medical attendant in the country, he ■ was told that he was going to have another attack of palsy, and was ordered to be cupped and blistered, &c. His daughter says, his countenance appears now exactly in the same condition as when first ob- served to be distorted. “ All the muscles of the right side of his face, which are controlled by the influence of the portio dura, or respiratory nerve of the face, are completely paralysed. He cannot elevate his eyebrow nor frown ;