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

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1721-1798.
Date:
1792
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    monly hanging loofe from the body like a thre flier's flail. The caufe of pain is, I think, no doubt, the caufe of the palfy ■, and this probably arifes from a diftenflon or obftrudtion of the nerves feated in the ligaments and membranes about the joint. It refembles a fciatica, but more violent in its effects, though it will now and then give way to a fimilar kind of treatment. The remedies 1 have found moft effec- tual in thefe cafes, after purging with calomel, &c. are fmall dofes of divided- quickfilver, opium, and fpirit of turpen- tine, with the volatile plafter I have elfe- where fpoken of; afterwards a plafter compofed of pitch, opium, camphor, crude fal ammoniac, elfential oils, &c. applied to the affected parr, will often do good fervice; or fometimes a lotion of Barba- does tar, and the volatile aromatic fpirit, or the volatile fpirit of fal ammoniac, fliould be ufed, where we fufpeft, from length of time, &c. attehuants are re- quired ; for I know very well this bitu- men.