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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    [42 ] flomach; his pulfe was languid, and his whole appearance evidenced him to be on the verge of diflolution, which in a few days afterwards took place. t Upon enquiry into his hiflory and pre¬ ceding fymptoms, he informed me, that fourteen years ago he had received a bruife from being prefled between two carriages, which had caufed a vomiting of blood. That for three or four years paft, he had felt painful fenfations in his loins, from which period he dated the commencement of the diforder in his bladder. On account of the pains in his feet, his complaints were treated as proceeding from rheumatifm or the gout, and Bath waters were pr.efcribed, but no advantage was de¬ rived from their ufe. About a month before I faw him, a flight degree of fullnefs was obferved in the re- gion