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

  • Watt, Robert, 1774-1819.
Date:
1814
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cases of periodical jactitation, or chorea / by Robert Watt, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forwards; but this appeared to be voluntary and not convulsive. She was always quite sensible ; and during the continuance of this motion, the head- ach was much abated. She complained of nothing except when interrupted in her incessant motions. She seemed to feel relief, and expressed her satis¬ faction, when the attendants enabled her to turn round with still greater velocity than she could by her own efforts. About the end of February the motion ceased, and the headach returned with redoubled violence. At this time, she requested some of her friends to press her head in the most forcible manner, and this appeared to give her some relief. After the violent headach had continued about two weeks, she lost entirely the power of the muscles of her neck, so that the head, when not supported, fell backwards, forwards, or to whatever side the body happened to be inclined. The headach began now to abate, and she recovered her speech so far as to be able to utter a few words, so as to be un» j derstood; but in the end of March she was seized with a new sort of motion, and again lost her speech. She now laid herself across the bed, and turning round like a roller, moved rapidly from the one end of the bed to the other. But as she turned always in one direction, when she arrived at this point she found it difficult to continue the rotatory motion, with that rapidity which she wished. As this circumstance gave her considerable uneasiness.