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

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1721-1798.
Date:
1792
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    a fid Paralytic Affections'. % %, A 1/ it is a moft acute apoplexy*.” Which doftrine was copied by /Etius *f* Paulus, + and all the fubfequent Greek writers, implicitly, without, as far as I can find, one fa<5t to fupport the theory advanced. Marinellus, in his learned commen- tary on Hippocrates, from the pafTage we have quoted above, and a pafTage in Ga- len, refpe&ing chronic apoplexies, divides this difeafe into two kinds, the acute, of a hot nature, and called ftrong, the other weak, chronic, and cold. The acute, or firong, was faid to arife from an acrid, and the chronic from a thick pituitou$. attrabiliary defluxion ; in which diftinc- tions the apoplexy and palfy are defcribed * under one general name. Hence we fee how it came to pafs, that Hippocrates called a local palfy of the leg, and an he- * Thofe who with to fee from whence this reading is made, will fave themfelves much trouble, if they ii hive recourfe to Lacuna’s Epitome Gaieni. f Cap. 27. Serum 2. \ Lib. 3. cap. 18, ipiplegia