Medical notes and essays / by Peter Eade.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Medical notes and essays / by Peter Eade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ])1PHTHEK1A. much the same. To, take two grains of sulphate of zinc daily. April 19. Says he has rather more feeling in his hands, and rather more power over the muscles, both of the arms and legs; hut sensation in the feet is not much greater than on admission. To take two grains of sul- phate of zinc, and one grain of sulphate of quinine, thrice daily, with ten grains of citrate of iron. May 13. Has been steadily and rapidly improving since the change of medicine. He can walk well, has little or no numbness, and complains of nothing but a slight feeling of weakness in one ankle. There is no longer any murmur to he heard over the heart. May 20. Quite well, in all respects. Discharged cured. Case 21.—Diphtheria. Secondary paralysis. Re- covery. Henry G., set. 27. Farm labourer. Admitted an out- patient of the Norwich Hospital, June 4, 1859. States that four months ago he suffered from sore throat, which he was told was diphtheria, and for which he took medicine- -and had caustic applied locally. Several other persons, his neighbours, were similarly affected at the same time. In about ten weeks, and just as he began to consider himself well and able to go to work, he began to feel a weakness, with numbness and tingling, in both his fingers and his feet. This continued to get worse, gradually extending as high as the knees and elbows, for about a month; since which time it has been stationary.