Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities / by John Jebb.

  • Jebb, John, 1736-1786.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities / by John Jebb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    CAS E IX, In the beginning of the year 1779, 1 attended a boy about feven years of agc^ who laboured under the fymptoms of ob- ftruilion in the mefenteric glands. His belJy was prominent ar\d hard, his ftools were flimy, and he was much reduced ixx confequence of an he£lic fever, attended with cough, lofs of appetite, and reftlefs* nefs. His manner of walking was auk^ ward and irregular; and he frequently complained of pain in the thigh of the right fide, and a violent itching; in thq groin^ Upon furveying the fplne, I obferved that fpecies of inflexion to which nofo- logifts give the name of fcoliofis, and upon a fecond examination, fome weeks afterwards, a flight degree of protuberance of