A treatise on nervous diseases : in which are introduced some observations on the structure and functions of the nervous system; and such an investigation of the symptoms and causes of these diseases as may lead to a rational and successful method of cure / by Sayer Walker, M. D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London: physician in ordinary to the city of London Lying-in-Hospital; and one of the physicians to the City Dispensary.

  • Walker, Sayer, 1748-1826.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A treatise on nervous diseases : in which are introduced some observations on the structure and functions of the nervous system; and such an investigation of the symptoms and causes of these diseases as may lead to a rational and successful method of cure / by Sayer Walker, M. D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London: physician in ordinary to the city of London Lying-in-Hospital; and one of the physicians to the City Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    intervals of it, have enjoyed tolerable health and fpirits. Dr. John Jebb mentions a very curious inftance of catalepfy, which v^as preceded and followed by a variety of nervous af- fections. The lubjed of this difeafe was a young lady, whom, after being afflided for fome months, the Dodor was defired to vifit; and whom he found employed in netting and palling the needle through the mefh, in which pofition, he informs us, She became rigid, exhibiting, in a /very pleafnig form, a figure of death-like fleep, beyond the power of art to imi- tate, or of imagination to conceive. In about half an hour after his arrival, the ftatue-like appearance being yet unal- tered, flie fang three plaintive fongs, in F 2