Loss of muscle function in one or more muscles

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The interior of the thermal baths, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1814.

Christ stands among sick people ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching after Rembrandt, 1649.

Christ stands among sick people and Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by J.P. Le Bas, 1776, after Rembrandt, 1649.

Mademoiselle Hardouin, a woman who is paralysed in both legs and has to be transported everywhere. Engraving.

Mrs John Webb, being nursed when sick in bed with "a dead palsey, and ... convulsion in the nerves", before being cured by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.

Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Wood engraving by H. Linton after T. Beech (?) after Rembrandt, 1649.

The Pool of Bethesda, Jerusalem, Israel. Lithograph by D. Roberts, 1839.

Mademoiselle Hardouin miraculously cured of her paralysis at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.

Our motto is "curative" : The Magnetic Pill (patented) tonic and aperient.

Crowds gather as Christ heals sick people. Engraving by T. Phillibrown after B. West.

The paralytic is lowered through the roof of a crowded house so that Christ can reach him and cure him. Engraving by J. Newton, 1795 (?), after C.R. Ryley.

Jacques Boyol, inventeur d'une machine, servant à guérir ou à soulager les maux qui n'ont pû l'être, ni par les remèdes ni par les eaux minérales : à ses concitoyens.

Dissertatio medica de paralysi ... / [Jacobus Soldevilla-Barta].

Exposition des attributs du système nerveux : réfutation de la doctrine de Charles Bell, et explication des phénomènes de la paralysie / par le docteur Castel.

On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance.

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Paralysis

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The interior of the thermal baths, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1814.

Dissertatio medica de paralysi ... / [Jacobus Soldevilla-Barta].

Exposition des attributs du système nerveux : réfutation de la doctrine de Charles Bell, et explication des phénomènes de la paralysie / par le docteur Castel.

On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance.

Jacques Boyol, inventeur d'une machine, servant à guérir ou à soulager les maux qui n'ont pû l'être, ni par les remèdes ni par les eaux minérales : à ses concitoyens.

Paralysis

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Works from the collections

The interior of the thermal baths, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1814.

Dissertatio medica de paralysi ... / [Jacobus Soldevilla-Barta].

Exposition des attributs du système nerveux : réfutation de la doctrine de Charles Bell, et explication des phénomènes de la paralysie / par le docteur Castel.

On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance.

Jacques Boyol, inventeur d'une machine, servant à guérir ou à soulager les maux qui n'ont pû l'être, ni par les remèdes ni par les eaux minérales : à ses concitoyens.

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