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
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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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![raplegia, paresis, and paralysis are all of the same kind; consisting in a loss of sensation, of mind and of motion. Apoplexy is a palsy of the whole body, of sensation, of mind, and of motion. * And on this sub- ject Galen, Alexander Trallianus, JEtius and Paulus jEgineta agree in opinion with Aretseus. — Hippocrates, who in various parts of his works speaks of apoplexy, no where, as far as I know, mentions paralysis, and when he refers to this disease he em- ploys the term apoplexia. Both Aretaeus and Paulus iEgineta represent him as speak- ing of apoplexy in the leg. Celsus describes palsy and apoplexy by the general terms resolutio nervorum. Palsy has been variously defined by mo- dern writers. It has been denominated an impotence of motion; a lax immobility not to be overcome by any effort of the will f; * A7ro7rXr)^i>], ‘TrapanXrjylri, Tra^ecrjj, TrapaXucrjf etwavra Tco ylvE’t To)UT«. H yoip ^ upifoiv lf» AAX’ a7ro7rAr)0/)j /xev oAoo tou xa» Trjg di<r^rj(rtos rs xai yvwju.r]j, xa« xiv^cn^ ig-f Trapd^vcrig. Aret. de Caus. et Sign. Diut. Morh. lib. i. c. 7. f Boerhaave.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24925214_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
