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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    a loss of the power of voluntary motion, but affecting certain parts of the body only, and thus distinguished from apoplexy * ; an in- capacity of sense or of motion when the person is-awakef; a corporeal torpitude, and muscular immobility more or less ge- neral, without somnolency. X Perhaps the following definition may be considered as comprehending all the chief characteristics of palsy. It is a disease in which there is a diminution, or an entire loss, of the power of voluntary motion, or of sensation, or of both, in some particular part or parts of the body, without coma. Palsy sometimes comes on suddenly, sometimes gradually, and is preceded by symptoms much resembling those formerly described as the forerunners of apoplexy; particularly vertigo, drowsiness, pain in a circumscribed part of the head, numbness or torpor, loss of memory, and faltering in speech. These I have often seen the precursors of palsy, and to them may be added a faltering inarticulate voice, drow- siness, forgetfulness, a slight delirium, a * Cullen. f Young. t Good.
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