Life-preserving manual, : comprising all the means most proper to be instantly adopted, ... with instructions and cautions calculated to prevent the occurrence of the most frequent and fatal accidents. / By S.G. Wilks, M.D.

  • Wilks, S. G.
Date:
1820
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Life-preserving manual, : comprising all the means most proper to be instantly adopted, ... with instructions and cautions calculated to prevent the occurrence of the most frequent and fatal accidents. / By S.G. Wilks, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3] PALSY. THERE is no nervous affection so serious in its consequences or so suddenly fatal as this. Little can be done at the moment of attack, and the subsequent treatment, is so various, according to the character of the disease, and the age and con- dition of the patient, that it must be confided en- tirely to the judgment of an experienced practi- toner. C4