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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    and it is now liis only complaint. In other respects he is quite well. Has a good complexion, is well nourished, has a good appetite, and bowels are open daily. Pulse soft and weak. Has not suffered from any privation. Has taken no medicine for his present symptoms. Ordered steel, zinc, and quinine, with good diet and porter. July 7. Peports himself as nearly well. He has continued to take the same medicines, and has been gradually improving ever since his admission; the return of power in the upper limbs having all along been in ad- vance of that in the lower extremities. Cme 22.—Diphtheria. Secondary paralysis. ^ Ee- covery. James R., set., 63. Husbandman., Admitted a patient of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, June 12, 1858. States that he is a married man, of temperate and regular habits, always having enjoyed excellent health until January last, when he was laid up for a month with in- fluenza. Prom this he speedily recovered, and resumed his usual employment, and remained quite well until two months ago, when h§ caught what he considered a bad cold. For this he took medicine, but was not compelled by it to discontinue work, and in about a fortnight he got well again. He was then seized with a numbness in his hands and feet, preceded for two or three days, but not accom- panied by, vague ]pains in the back and elsewhere (which he attributed to extreme constipation of the bowels). Since