New or electric symptoms of chronic diseases, or chronic tubercula of the organs and limbs, by which they may be easily and invariably distinguished by any person of common education and capacity : and their natural or electric remedies, which, with very few exceptions in the last stage, cure all these diseases by their electric influences, including all the forms of scrofula with cases affecting the different organs and limbs / by H.H. Sherwood.

Sherwood, H. H. (Henry Hall)

Date:: 1836

Credit: New or electric symptoms of chronic diseases, or chronic tubercula of the organs and limbs, by which they may be easily and invariably distinguished by any person of common education and capacity : and their natural or electric remedies, which, with very few exceptions in the last stage, cure all these diseases by their electric influences, including all the forms of scrofula with cases affecting the different organs and limbs / by H.H. Sherwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

Title Page

13/64

skull; when he observed that it hurt him, and the pain darted in- to his tongue. I then pressed on the left side, in the space be- tween the first and second vertebrae; when he observed again that it hurt him, and the pain darted into his throat. I then pres- sed on the left side of the same space; when he again repeated the observation, that it hurt him, and the pain darted into his throat. Pressure along the other joints of the neck and back, produced no pain or effect whatever. I now told him that his tongue and tonsils were swelled, and that he had a cough and expectoration; and on looking into his mouth, found both tonsils (ammonds of the ears) much enlarged, and in a state of ulceration,—the uvula [palate] much enlarged and elongated, and the tongue twice its natural thickness. On examining the submaxillary and cervical ganglia of glands under the jaws, and in the sides of the neck they were found much en- larged. He is pale, and the emaciation is making progress. The disease commenced more than a year since, and he has been coughing and expectorating matter, more or less, during the last eight or nine months. Mr. J. H., Esq., of L., Ohio, aged 34 years, called for ad- vice, May 12, 1835. On examining the spine, I commenced between the first joint of the neck and skull, and pressed in the spaces between the joints below, one after another, and it pro- duced no pain until I had descended to the space on the right side, between the 7th and 8th dorsal, when pressure between these, and between the 8th and 9th produced pain, which on ev- ery repetition of the pressure, darted into the liver. Pressure along the joints below these, produced no pain or effect whatev- er. On enquiring into the history of this case, I found the dis- ease commenced in the liver, about six years ago, and has termi- nated in abscess, and broke and discharged through the in- testines, four different times during this period. He is now fee- ble, and just recovering from the formation and discharge of the last one, which had reduced him nearly to death, and from which he and his physician had but little hope of his recovery. Mr. H. brought with him his son, aged three years, with he- reditary scrofulous sore eyes. The eye-lids of both eyes, are very much swollen and inflamed, and the inflamation extends over both eye balls and has two ulcers of the cornea. The light is so painful to the eyes, as to render it necessary for him to hold a handkerchief almost constantly over them. The ganglia or line of glands on both sides of his neck, with the submaxillary under the jaws, are very much enlarged and painful under pres- sure. The disease commenced more than two years since, and he has, since that time, been subjected to thorough courses of

Licence and re-use

Contents