Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities. [To which is added a case of catalepsy] / [John Jebb].

  • Jebb, John, 1736-1786
Date:
1782
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Credit: Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities. [To which is added a case of catalepsy] / [John Jebb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In conformity to the principles upon which the inimitable Nofology of Dr. Cul¬ len is founded, I will, in the hiftory of thefe cafes, confine myfelf folely to evi¬ dent fymptoms, and the patient’s narrative; being fully fatisfied, that to defcribe dif- orders according to the forms in which they really evidence themfelves to the fenfes, with a careful attention to the pa¬ tient’s feelings, is the moft likely method of acquiring both a knowledge of their caufes and of their cure. CASE I. T. C. aged thirty-two, originally of an healthy conflitution, was admitted a pa¬ tient in St. Bartholomew’s Hofpital in November, 1777. He fometimes com¬ plained of a pain, but generally of a numb- nefs, at the margin of the thorax, under the cartilages of the ninth and tenth ribs of