History and method of cure of the various species of palsy : being the first part of the second volume of a treatise on nervous diseases / John Cooke.

John Cooke

Date:: 1821

Credit: History and method of cure of the various species of palsy : being the first part of the second volume of a treatise on nervous diseases / John Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$OJ* MLSY. 9‘ as if from the creeping of small insects over them, hence called formicatio. In palsy, the energies of the mind are^ often much weakened; sometimes they are entirely destroyed. After a paralytic stroke, the memory especially, is frequently in- jured, and we have some curious cases on record of partial defects of that faculty, or of the complete loss of its power as to par- ticular subjects,—Galen, speaking of the causes of the sympto>ms of affections of the governing energies, says, we have seen some persons who had entirely forgotten letters and arts, and even their own names. * He observes, that such symp- toms manifestly shew a refrigeration of the brain, as in apoplexy and epilepsy f, and though he does not use the term paralysis in this passage, I think it probable that he had also that disease in view; for he some- times includes palsy under the head apo- * 'Eviovg yovv xa) yp«|Xf4.aTa «a» teAscoj eTnXado- ]u,lvoo5 xou ju.riSs rm (rtpsTegcov ovof^xrcav fjLSf^vri- aivoug. f T« /xh Srj Toiavra a-vixwTwjxuTa to <ru>ixa. xars^v^^pcti 5i]Xo7 T« iyxe^faXou wtnrsp xa) t« onro'7r\r)XTix& x«» ra lirt-$