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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    dimness of sight, or double vision, trem- bling, a numbness gradually ascending to the head, frequent yawning, weakness, distor- tion of the mouth, and a disposition to faint. These are the signs which in some cases precede palsy for a few hours, or for a few days. Sometimes a weakness of a limb, or of one half of the body has for many months, or some years, been gradually increasing, and at length ended in a perfect hemiplegia. Sometimes notices of approach- ing palsy have come on, and then disap- peared for some hours, as if there were a struggle between the constitution and the disease, till these threatenings have either wholly ceased, or have ended in a resolution of the nerves. * Palsy often begins by af- fecting a very small part of the body, as one arm, or the hand only, or sometimes one finger ; the muscles of the tongue, of one side of the face, or of the eyelids, f Palsy chiefly consists in the loss of the power of voluntary motion, for sensation in a greater or less degree generally remains ; * Heberden, f Abercrombie.