Cases of periodical jactitation, or chorea / by Robert Watt, M.D.

  • Watt, Robert, 1774-1819.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Cases of periodical jactitation, or chorea / by Robert Watt, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    beneficial at a more advanced stage, and I cannot help thinking that the present case goes a consi¬ derable length in proving the expediency of Dr* Hamilton’s purgative plan in Chorea, and similar affections* t Since her recovery, innumerable attempts have been made to ascertain if she recollects what pass¬ ed during her illness, and what ideas she enter¬ tained at the time, but she has always shown the utmost reluctance to speak on the subject. She has however on various occasions, especially among her companions, inadvertently mentioned so many circumstances which occurred during her illness, that her friends have no doubt of her remembering distinctly every thing that happened, even when she was at the worst. For the account of her situation since she left Glasgow, and also for some particulars respecting her former history, which had escaped me, I am indebted to my late pupil, Mr, Andrew Lindsay, now surgeon at Galston. The whole statement, as now drawn up, has been submitted to her pa¬ rents, and has received their corrections and ap¬ probation. Another case, similar to the one I have related, occurred some years ago, in the parish of Dairy, in Airshire. The subject was a young female. I do not know how long her illness continued, but C 2