An enquiry into the various theories and methods of cure in apoplexies and palsies / by B. Chandler, M.D.

  • Chandler, Benjamin, 1737-1786.
Date:
1785
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Credit: An enquiry into the various theories and methods of cure in apoplexies and palsies / by B. Chandler, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    abound, either together or feparately, .in the hrlt of thefe; pituita or ferum always in the laft. The celebrated nofologifts of the prefent sera, imitating the example of the illuftrious Linnseus, in his fexual fyftem of vegetables, have endea- voured at a clarification of difeafes, according to the refemblances obferved between them. A work of undoubted utility, but of difficult exe- cution 5 as appears by that part of it now more particularly before us; where they feem not to be perfectly agreed: one having placed apoplexy and palfy in the fame clafs or order, another having feparated them, and fo on. ProfefTor Cullen admits them as the only two poflible genera of his order Comata, 1093. of the clafs Neurofes. By which method, the re- lationihip between them is ftrongly marked, much of the ancient obfcurity removed, and new light thrown on both. The frequent tran- fition of apoplexy into palfy, and of palfy, when it proves mortal, into apoplexy again, argues ftrongly in favour of this claffification. B z Yet,