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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$CHAP. II. \ History of Hemiplegia, * * The disease hemiplegia, or semisideratio as some call it, has been described or adverted to by almost all the ancients, yet the word hemiplegia does not any where, I believe, occur in the writings of Hippocrates, Galen, or Aretmus. Paulus ^Egineta seems to have been the first who thus designated this species of palsy. Apoplexy, he says, consists in a general abolition of the powers of sensation and motion, together with an injury of the governing energies : if the obstruction be in either side, the disease is named hemiplegia and paralysis ; but if the injury be in one particular part, it has its name from the part affected. ^ Hemiplegia in a great proportion of cases is preceded by an apoplectic fit, which is * jjjtij, dimidium, irAijo-crco percutio. * ’El 8e Kara fiarepov jttopo'f rj s[x,<ppci^is ylv*)T«i xai 'irupaXuri; ovojM.a^eT«i, ei 8s xafl’ ev T» (j,opiov >j Toiaonj <ros'a»>] (3>iia|3v) sxe/voo t5 p,ipioo to Asp^^tftrSTai. Paulus ^gineta, lib. iii. c. 17.$