On paralysis occurring during gestation and in childbed / by Fleetwood Churchill.

  • Churchill, Fleetwood, 1808-1878.
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[1854]
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Credit: On paralysis occurring during gestation and in childbed / by Fleetwood Churchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J . z/’ • V jfo • Art. XI.— On Paralysis occurring during Gestation and in Childbed. By Fleetwood Churchill, M.D. T.C.D., M. R. I. A., Fellow of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians in Ireland, and Associate Member of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, U. S., &c. &c.a Haying been much interested by a case of paralysis after deli¬ very, to which I was called by my friend Dr. Duke, I was led to make some inquiry into the occurrence of the disease, not merely after delivery, but during gestation, and to examine the authorities within my reach, in order to collect from them all the information they contain; but I am.sorry to say that my search has not been very fruitful in results. Bearing in mind that paralytic affections may occur as a termination of convul¬ sions, as well as independently, I carefully looked over the principal obstetric writers; and in the works of Giffard, Ould, Exton, Smellie,Chapman, Pugh, Burton, Moore, Foster, Perfect, Osborn, Spence, Hamilton, Denman, Burns, Merriman, Blun¬ dell, Collins, Davis, Lee, Murphy, and Hardy and M‘Clintock, I have found no mention of the disease. a Read at a meeting of the Association of the College of Physicians, March 1, 1854. VOL. XVII. NO. 34, N. S. S