Practical observations on distortions of the spine, chest, and limbs : together with remarks on paralytic and other diseases connected with impaired or defective motion / by William Tilleard Ward.

  • Ward, William Tilleard.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Practical observations on distortions of the spine, chest, and limbs : together with remarks on paralytic and other diseases connected with impaired or defective motion / by William Tilleard Ward. 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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    The history and treatment of paralysis and of chorea, as far as belongs to the pro- vince of surgery, has been rendered as concise as was consistent with a proper elu- cidation of the views which he has formed of those disorders. To medical wTiters he must refer for fuller information with re- spect to points of general treatment. It is not unlikely that in the cases related, he may have been indebted to the protracted state of the complaint for the relief which the means employed have enabled him to afford, as it is probable, that time may effect a restoration of the nervous functions, although the muscles, by the deprivation of nervous excitement and consequent inacti- vity, may have lost their bulk and strength. Thus, the original disease being removed, another cause arises which equally pre- vents a free restoration of the muscular powers, in this respect bearing some