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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    of a journeyman house-painter, acknowledging him- self to have been a free liver, who became my patient in the hospital. Three several poisons of fever, paint, and alcohol were in simultaneous operation through the blood on the muscles of this man. A young gentleman, residing in Sloane Street, Chelsea, was attended by me in the spring of the same year, during an attack of fever, in which, for a time, spasm of the thoracic muscles was the promi- nent symptom. A medical friend was attacked, when of mature age, by fever with severe and extensive spasm of the voluntary muscles. The alarm occa- sioned by those symptoms was at once dispelled by a timely eruption of the chicken-pox. In a most interesting Report by Dr. Southwood Smith of an illness which prevailed periodically, and under different forms, for many successive years among the children of a large female school situated at the back of Euston Square, it is stated that spasm of the voluntary muscles took its turn with ophthalmia, obstinate constipation, and typhoid fever, in the deve- lopment of the constitutional poison. Certain individuals betray this irritable condition of the muscular fibre under all circumstances of dis- turbance in their general health. A fit of indigestion, —an attack of catarrh,—a burst of strong emotion, will in them give occasion to immediate symptoms of irregular muscular action. In the case of a gentleman between fifty and sixty years of age, who fell under my care in the autumn of J 840, there was a good illustration of this peculiar