A commentary on apoplectic and paralytic affections : and on diseases connected with the subject.

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1721-1798.
Date:
1792
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Credit: A commentary on apoplectic and paralytic affections : and on diseases connected with the subject. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    off A diftincfion, however, mud be mack betwixt the partial returns of motion which feeni to be occafioned by a fudder ftruggle of nature, and that which comes on gradually ; the one being very imper fedt, often affedting one or both limbs onlv of the fame fide, and little or nc alteration happens after the firft effort i: over, the paralytic member remaining ar ungovernable part of the body : whereas in the other, from the firft figns of reco-* p very, the fingers or toes (for inftance] regularly fhew their fubferviency to the h command of the will, and by degrees often aflame their wonted ufe. On the contrary, we know it fometimes happens, that there is not any remiffion in the difeafe, the power which gives motion to the mufcles being intirely abo- lifhed at the onfet, and incapable of being reftored either by art or nature. Nor do I fee how blifters to the wrifts could be ferviceable ; for the tendons are i. pnly infenfible inelaftic pullies, and could not, 4 f