Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities. [To which is added a case of catalepsy] / [John Jebb].

  • Jebb, John, 1736-1786
Date:
1782
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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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    * C A s E : IX. In the beginning of the year 1779/ | attended a boy about feven years of age, who laboured under the fymptoms*of ob- ftruction in the mefenteric glands. His belly was prominent and hard, his ftools were flimy, and he was much reduced in confequence of an hedtic fever, attended with cough, lofs of appetite, and reftlefs- nefs; His manner of walking was auk- ward and irregular; and he frequently complained of pain in the thigh of the right fide, and a violent itching in the groin. Upon furveying the fpine, I obferved that fpecies of inflexion to which nofo- logifts give the name of fcoliofis, and upon a fecond examination, fome weeks afterwards, a flight degree of protuberance of