An essay on the Rhus toxicodendron : with cases of its effects in the cure of paralytic affections, and other diseases of great debility / By Johnn Alderson.

  • Alderson, John, 1757-1829.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An essay on the Rhus toxicodendron : with cases of its effects in the cure of paralytic affections, and other diseases of great debility / By Johnn Alderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the other patients in the fame ward, that he pofiefied the power of voluntarily employing all thofe mufcles that had been once convulfively affe£ted in confequence of the Toxicodendron. He regularly purfued the medicine, and gradually increafed it to one grain every four hours, taking care always to add to the dofe, till he found fome convulfive a£tion was produced. In the courfe of three weeks, in which time every injured mufcle had felt the influence of this powerful drug, he regained the free and perfect motion of his leg and arm ; and recovered the full enjoyment of his mental faculties, which had been equally affe£ted from the firft attack. s December 2.4, 1793. CASE V. I. Bird was admitted into the Hull General Infirmary, with fymptoms of hemiplegia, having loft the ufe of his left arm, and feeling a numbnefs in the leg and thigh of the fame fide. He informed me, that the week before, he had been luddenly feized with a fit, whilft at ftool in the neceffary, that when he firft became fenfible of his fituation, he found himfelf upon the floor, unable either to articulate