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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    and might be reforted to as authorltiejf, and as evidences of Nature's powers, and of Nature's laws. Inftances frequently occur in hofpitals, where, without offence and without dif- ficulty, enquiries might be made into the original caufes and origin of the diforder, by an examination of the appearances in the body after death. This is at prefent fometimes permitted, under proper reftric- tions; but the mode of conducing fuch enquiry admits of confiderable improve- ment : the inveftigation (hould be more minute, and inftituted under the immediate infpeftion of the attendant phyfician, aflifted by a perfon accuftomed to morbid diffec- tlons, and a proficient in the anatomical art. The appearances, fubmitted to the view of all the {Indents, and accurately reported, fhould be properly authenticated; and if inferted in the oppofite page to the hif- tory of the fymptoms and the mode of treat-