Practical observations on distortions of the spine, chest, and limbs : together with remarks on paralytic and other diseases connected with impaired or defective motion / by William Tilleard Ward.

  • Ward, William Tilleard.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Practical observations on distortions of the spine, chest, and limbs : together with remarks on paralytic and other diseases connected with impaired or defective motion / by William Tilleard Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    memoranda were taken of the case; the tongue is furred, the bowels are habitually costive, the pulse varies from 90 to 120. He is quick of apprehension, easily irritated, but remarkably cheerful and good-tempered. It has been ob- served by his friends that, on the whole, the convulsive motions were less frequent when he was confined to a low diet and his bowels kept in a soluble state. Any attempt to resist these irregular actions, even for a short time, fatigued him excessively, produced great uneasiness about the chest, and apparently aggravated the dis- order. Exercise, or any emotion or passion of the mind that accelerated the circulation, in- creased the contortions in different parts of the body. On examination^ the thorax was found contracted, the extent of which, and the means adopted for its removal, have been stated under the head of distortion of the chest (Case II.). Various means had been resorted to for the removal of this disease, purgatives, electricity for the space of six months, daily for the first, and twice a day during the next three months; he took anodynes^ underwent a course of mercury, and had an issue applied to the nape of the neck.