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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    phyficians of our hofpitals more generally \ * to imitate the manner purfued in the In¬ firmary of Edinburgh. Were they to point out to their pupils fuch particular cafes, as feemed mod: likely to afford opportunities of improvement—were they to encourage them to meet and to report the refult of their enquiries into the fymptoms of the diforder, the effedt of the medicines, and the progrefs of the complaint to its fatal termination, or its cure—were they, laftly, from the various accounts of the fludents, and their own obfervations, to draw up regular and well-digefted hiftories of fuch cafes, as might appear moft deferving of attention, and infert them, properly au¬ thenticated, in the books of the hofpital, fuch hiftories and details would be attend¬ ed with public as well as private advantage; they would be analogous to the reports and year-books of our lawyers—to the recorded obfervations of the appearances in the heavens—and might be refjrted to as au- B z thorities.
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