Contributions to the hygienic treatment of paralysis, and of paralytic deformities : illustrated by numerous cases with a short sketch of rational medical gymnastics, or, the movement cure / by M. Roth.

  • Mathias Roth
Date:
1860
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Credit: Contributions to the hygienic treatment of paralysis, and of paralytic deformities : illustrated by numerous cases with a short sketch of rational medical gymnastics, or, the movement cure / by M. Roth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 Mental anxiety. 6 Disease of the brain and spinal chord. 4 Mechanical injuries; one by a fall from a horse; one by a fall from a height of thirty feet, when three years old; one by explosion of a gun. 3 Exposure to cold. 1 Meningitis. 1 Hereditary predisposition. 1 Tasnia and terebinthina. The patient was quite well to the age of thirty, and when returning from Switzerland was believed to suffer from tapeworm, and after large doses of terebinthina for the expulsion of the enemy, was affected with paraplegia. The prevalent causes of paralysis in infancy and youth, the congenital, the process of dentition, and constitutional weakness, seem to be counterbalanced in mature age by apoplexy, mental anxiety, and diseases of the brain and spinal chord. That the same cause produces various forms of paralytic affections, is shown in the following table. ——————— r-7T'.jr«h7? i iii i ii—s—PE—BwanaEMBraamcvarr.■ i nn ——aw—— Paralysis Knee Hemi- Para- Of one Of one Wry Chicken General inver- No. plegia. plegia. leg. arm. neck. breast paralysis, sion. 7 .. Apoplexy caused .... 5 .. 1 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 2 .. Caries 1 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 7 .. Congenital 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 1 .. 0 1 .. Meningitis 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 1 .. Myelitis 0 .. 0 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 5 .. Dentition 1 .. 1 .. 3 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 4 .. Hereditary 1 .. 0 .. 2 .. 0 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 4 .. Weak constitution ... 0 .. 0 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 2 .. 0 .. 1 5 .. Mechanical injuries .. 1 .. 2 .. 0 .. 2 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 2 .. Tsenia and Terebin- thina 0 .. 1 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 3 .. Mental anxiety 1 .. I .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 5 .. Exposure to cold and damp 2 .. 1 .. 1 .. 0 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 1 6 .. Disease of brain and spinal chord 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 3 .. 0 52 16 11 13 3 2 2 4 1
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