Volume 2

Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life. Part second / By Erasmus Darwin, M.D.

  • Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1797
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    ferve the mufcles of vocality, by opening or clofing— the larynx. The voice generally returns fuddenly, . even fo as to alarm the patient. A young lady, who. had many months been affeéted with almoft a total lofs” of voice, and had’in vain tried vatiety of advice, re- covered her voice in an inftant, on fome alarm’ as fhe was dancing at an aflembly. Was this owing to a greater exertion of volition than uftal? like the dumb. young man, the fon of Crcefus, who is related to have cried out, when he faw his father’s life endan- gered by the fword of his enemy, and to have con- tinued to fpeak ever afterwards. ‘Two young ladies® in this complaint feemed to be cured by electric fhocks. pafled through the larynx every day for a fortnight. See Raucedo catarrhalis, Clafs If. 1.3. 5. M. M. Anemetic. Eleétric fhocks. Muflard-feed, a large fpoonful fwallowed whole, or a little bruifed, every morning. Valerian. Burnt fponge. Blifters ~on each fide of the larynx. Sea-bathing. © A gargle of decoftion of feneca. Frigtion. Frequent endea- vours to fhout and fing. | ; x 6. Vefice urinaria paralyfis. Paralyfis of the blad- , der is frequently a fymptom in inirritative fever; in this cafe the patient makes no water for a day or two; and the tumor of the bladder diftended with urine may be feen by the fhape of the abdomen, as if girt by a cord below the navel, or diftinguithed by the: hand. Many patients in this fituation make no com- Psy G and fufler great injury by the inattention of ° ait , A. r | their: ioe &* Be) id heat Seiten f v) i A, if if ff ; .
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