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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    [ ] toms that feemed to require thefe remedies, his health was in a progreffive Rate of im- provement from the time of his admiffion, till his difcharge. CASE XLIX. Hemiplegia 'without any ajjignable Caufe. BETTY MERCHANT, aged 40, of Char- ter- Houfe-Hinton in the county of Somerfet, was admitted into the Bath hofpital, Feb. 6, 1786, for a pally of her right fide, which came on about fix weeks before. When ad- mitted Ihe was a perfe£t cripple, unable to move or Hand, or help herfelf in almoft any refpect. Her limbs too were afflidled with vehement pain, her health in other refpects not much affected. She was directed to drink the waters daily, to bathe twice a week, and to take four grains of Cayenne pepper daily made into pills. She took no other medicines, and was difcharged cured May 17, 1786, after fourteen weeks Ray. G When
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