The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover.

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1771
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Palsey, or Paralyiis. I AM now entering on nervous Difeafes: As to that Part of them which compote the feveral Species of Palfey, it will be Matter of no great Difficulty to diftinguifh and explain them. Neverthelefs, I am fen- fible, as I launch farther into this Field, and treat of nervous Difeafes at large, there will be great Nicety required to give their feve¬ ral Defcriptions, and make them fo plain, that one may not be taken for the other ; or even that they may not be taken for acute Cafes, which may prove of the worft Confe- quence to the Patient. * Hemiplegie, or Hemiplexia. THIS Species of the Palfey affedfs but one Side; which is owing t© the dou¬ bling of the Dura Mater, called the Falx, by which the Brain is divided; fo that, unlefs in extraordinafy Cafes, the Paralyiis is feldom met with. The great Author of Nature has afforded us Duplicates in almoft every Parti¬ cular ; fo that in Cafe one becomes ufelefs, or loft.