Narrative of the efficacy of the Bath waters : in various kinds of paralytic disorders admitted into the Bath Hospital, from the end of 1775, to the end of 1785.

  • General Hospital or Infirmary (Bath, England)
Date:
1787
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Credit: Narrative of the efficacy of the Bath waters : in various kinds of paralytic disorders admitted into the Bath Hospital, from the end of 1775, to the end of 1785. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ 7° ] from between his fhoulders by cupping, and a gentle dofe of purging phyfic, which gave his head fome relief. He was alfo diredted to forbear drinking the waters, and ordered to ufe the pump on the fide affected. On July the 2d his head-ach returned, attended with vertigo, for which eight ounces of blood were diredted to be taken from the arm, and a bliffer applied to the nape of the neck, which was directed to be kept running. This relieved his head-ach and vertigo, and enabled him to ufe the bath and pump with little inter- ruption afterwards. He was difcharged much better, December 22, 1784, after a ftay of twenty-fix weeks. : His head-ach and vertigo were entirely gone, I and his flrength fo far increafed as to enable him to walk tolerably well with two fticks. CASE XXXIX. Palsy fucceeding a Putrid Fever. THOMAS EL WORTHY, aged 40, off Cullumpton in Devonfhire, was admitted February m