The study of medicine. With a physiological system of nosology / [John Mason Good].

  • John Mason Good
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1825
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    AP oT Maree x be ae DY. ‘ ri * ‘ - GE. VIIL—SP. Vi]. | NERVOUS FUNCTION. *— 429 ie we, rr Mc some fayourite and agreeable authors. This may be an overstate- ment, or too much stress may be laid on this particular part of the general plan of treatment; but there can be no doubt that, in the form of the disease we. are now contemplating, a gentle and in- sinuating amusement of this kind will not be without its effect. ~ This tranquillizing and unostentatious plan I have found to answer wonderfully in many cases of that tumultuous and irregular action described in the preceding history/of the disease before us, But “where the case seems altogether confirmed) and chronic, and an entire side, or some other extensive part of the body, shows a fixed loss of sense and voluntary motion, while every other part has re- sumed its h calthy function, we may then, with safety, have recourse th stimulant practige:!(: Meir: Fe gl. He, ‘This will consist of external and internal irritants, and Dr. Cullen ction of such an effect in a great of | articular of trismus and lyssa, or canine ness, the principles of which we have endeavoured to elucidate er these diseases, we have reason to expect a like influence, and of a beneficial instead of a morbid kind, in the applications before us. Generally speaking, however, the irritation produced by a use of many of the siliquose and aliaceous or alkalescent plants, as ‘that of cantharides; as the irritation excited is more considerable and of longer duration. Dr, Cullen tells us that he has reason to in a debility of the limbs following rickets.”* — ae Many practitioners have, for the same purpose, been in the habit puytren employed a es ; he f rmer, and Pascal the latter; and both, they tell us, with great advantage. Others have thought they derived great service from a repeated use of sting-nettles. Some again have employed issués, others setons, and others the potential or even the actual cautery. This last mode of treatment, however, ‘is best calculated for that form of hemiplegia produced by a diseased * Mat. Med. Vol. Il. Part II. Cap. V. _ } Journ, de Med, Tom. LXVI. “s.