History and method of cure of the various species of palsy : being the first part of the second volume of a treatise on nervous diseases / John Cooke.

  • Cooke, John, 1756-1838.
Date:
1821
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    ON NERVOUS DISEASES. OF PALSY. CHAP. I. Definition^ Distinction^ and General History. In the first volume of this work, I have given an account of the opinions of the most celebrated medical authors, both ancient and modern, respecting the symp- toms, causes, nature, distinctions, and treat- ment of apoplexy. — I now proceed to a similar consideration of palsy, a nervous affection which is a very common conse- quence of apoplexy. 3? The ancients very generally considered apoplexy and palsy as diseases of the same nature but different in degree; apoplexy being an universal palsy, or palsy a partial apoplexy. Aretmus says apoplexy, pa-