Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1887
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    80/188 page 68
    general weakness lasting- one or two days or it may be three or four weeks. This is followed by paraly- sis of the lower limbs, then of the body, and finally ot the upper extremities with perhaps some disturbance of respiration. The electric excitability of the para- lysed nerves and muscles remains perfectly normal— an important point in distinguishing it from central myelitis and poliomyelitis anterior acuta. In most cases the tendon reflex is present at the beginning of the disease but is abolished later on. The paralysis in untreated cases usually progresses upwards until it involves the medulla oblongata and death ensues.
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image