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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    Vpon his admidion, he was immediately put upon a courfe of bathing, drinking, and punping the part affedted, and ordered a ftinulating liniment to the wrift and arm. He required nothing farther than the ufual hopital attendance, and was difcharged cured, thi 24th of May 1786, his hand and confti- tuion being perfedtly reftored to their full flxngth, in eight months. CASE XLV. P ^ralysis of the Muscles ^Deglutition. 3INAH STOKER, aged 52, ill feveral yeas with a paralyfis of the mufcles of deglu- tition, was admitted the 13th of March 1781. Ths patient had been in the hofpital in 1 17*5, for the fame complaint, and was then difharged Odtober the 2d, much better. Vhen fhe now applied for relief, fhe could not get down the lead: particle of folid food, neither could die fwallow liquids. Gellies, or glatinous fubftances, didolving in her j mouh, were her only means of fupport. As fhe