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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    ceou$ fubftance. The vertebras immediately contiguous had received but little injury, although their bodies were expofed to the fluid contained in the pouch : the aponeu¬ rotic expanfion confining * the fluid was much thickened its colour almoft black* ... - - The medulla fpinalis appeared perfectly found. The dura mater, where it lay ex¬ pofed to the matter, was alfo black, but not eroded, except that a final] aperture, as if made with a lancet, was difeerned on one fide, through which it was fuppofed the fluid of the abfeefs had penetrated, fo as to prefs upon the fpinal marrow itfelf. A portion of two or three of the dorfal nerves on one fide, in the place where they iffue between the vertebrae, was totally deftroyed. The capitula of the cor- refponding ribs were alfo expofed and con- fiderably eroded. F a i CASE