Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities. [To which is added a case of catalepsy] / [John Jebb].

  • John Jebb
Date:
1783
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Credit: Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities. [To which is added a case of catalepsy] / [John Jebb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ; : [ 3° ] With refpeft to ths treatment of lumbar abfeefles, it may perhaps be impoffible to point out any mode of treatment whatever which (hall prove fuccefsful. It may not, however, be improper to obferve, that if the abfeefs be opened with a knife, the quantity of furface expofed to the air induces that degree of hedtic fever, under which the patient generally finks; Nature, according to the juft conception of Mr. Hunter, being exhaufted by her exertions in attempting a cure of what it tranfeends her power to effedt. >• -3 In fuch circumftances, would it not be reafonable to open an outlet for the col- ledted fluid, as foon as the fludtuating tumor in the groin, and other fymptoms, (hall afeertain the nature of the complaint, by means of a cauftic applied to the moft depending nearly deftroyed by ulceration, and the nerves, iffuing through the foramina of the fpine, in part obliterated by the ravages of the difeafe.