Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities / by John Jebb.

  • Jebb, John, 1736-1786.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities / by John Jebb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of the left fide, with a cough, fpitting, and fhortened refplration, when he lay on that fide; the fpinous procefs of the feventh or eighth dorfal vertebra was confiderably protuberant; his belly was prominent and flaccid, with a numbnefs extending itfelf over the whole abdomen, and great debi- lity of the mufculi obliqui and tranfverfales, whenever he voluntarily attempted to con- tradl them; a fenfation of chillnefs pre- vailed in his knees, with a want of feeling in the fore part of his legs, and an inability of drawing them up in bed. To thefe fymptoms were added twitch- ings in the flexors of his legs, and numb- nefs of the feet, a jarring fenfation in the Tendo Achillis of one foot, and tranfient pains in both^ which, with the chillnefs, proceeded, as he conceived, and repeatedly declared, not from the protuberant part of the fpine, but the lumbar vertebra im- mediately above the os fiKrum. The