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 / by John Cooke ...

  • Cooke, John, 1756-1838
Date:
1821
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    raplegia, paresis, and paralysis are all of the same kind; consisting in a loss of sensation, of mind and of motion. Apoplexy is a palsy of the whole body, of sensation, of mind, and of motion. * And on this sub- ject Galen, Alexander Trallianus, iEtius and Paulus iEgineta agree in opinion with Aretseus. — Hippocrates, who in various parts of his works speaks of apoplexy, no where, as far as I know, mentions paralysis, and when he refers to this disease he em- ploys the term apoplexia. Both Aretaeus and Paulus iEgineta represent him as speak- ing of apoplexy in the leg. Celsus describes palsy and apoplexy by the general terms resolutio nervorum. Palsy has been variously defined by mo- dern writers. It has been denominated an impotence of motion ; a lax immobility not to be overcome by any effort of the will f ; * AnoTTkYj^iri, TrotpcaiXYiyir), ttapetrtg, -rrapaAvirig airuvra. tm ysvei twvtu. H yap xivij<ri(S^ y d<pijj ’ij apefoiv eg-t AAA’ a7T07r\r)glt] peev oAov tov (rxrjve&, xa\ ty)s di<r^r}<rtog rs xat yvuip-Yjs, xa» xtvij(n(&' e’r* napaAvertf. Aret.de Cans, ct Sign. Dint. Morb. lib. i. c. 7. f Boerhaave.