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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    f 7® ] eatajepfy followed next ip order, which at firft affeded her with only Angle rs, at a week or fortnight’s interval; thefe gradually advanced in ftrength and frequency, until^ hy her own fufferings, and her fenfibility, on account of the anxiety pf hef ffiends, ftiQ wps reduced to the moft pitiable diftrefs* t * * • r . r * ; : . * Before I faw her flie had been under the 1 * -* • ' < - ’ U J f V — fare of a phyfician of eminence in the country, who had attended to her cafe with Angular humanity, and had prefcribed various medicines of the nervous kind, which at one time produced fo favourable an effe&i as even to flatter with the prpfpedt of a cure; but the lymptpms returning with jncreafed violence, through frefli anxiety of mind, the fame courfe of medicine was not attended with the fame fuccefs* t tf ,T / r . Muik, opium, and hark, the latter pf which did not always agree with her bowels, were found moft effe&ivp. Of mufk fbe had