On spasm, languor, palsy, and other disorders, termed nervous, of the muscular system / by James Arthur Wilson.

  • Wilson, James Arthur, 1795-1882.
Date:
1843
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    inference of organic disease in the nervous centres, with the implied condition of large bleedings, in the routine practice of the day, and of strong mercurial poison for their removal; but that as following in the particular structure of the muscle from what is weak and defective in the general circulation, they will be best corrected by means calculated to replenish the vessels and invigorate the system. Even where the muscle is least in fault—when its function is impaired by lesion, not of its own struc- ture, but of the brain or spinal marrow—even under these effects of distinct and distant nervous injury, we must in our management of the case still depend on the blood for all that we hope to secure of improve- ment in the muscle ; on the blood, healthy and active in the repair of the damaged nervous structure. The disorders incidental to the double voluntary muscles of the body are expressed principally by undue violence of their contraction, escaping the control of the will; by their slowness and irregularity of move- ment ; or by the entire suspension of the faculty in which their motion originates. They may thus be classed under the heads of Spasm, Languor, and Para- lysis. Among them, in this arrangement, will be found disorders the most chronic and the most acute that afflict the human frame; of which, the symptoms, by their suddenness and violence, obtrude themselves exclusively on the attention of the patient, or are so slow and passive as to escape even the notice of the physician. The importance of disorder of the voluntary