Practical Observations on Chronic Affections of the Digestive Organs and on Bilious and Nervous Disorders Also Remarks on Warm Mineral Baths, Mineral

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820. Excerpt: ... leaving I desired her to be careful of the state of the bowels, and to live chiefly on plain boiled or roasted meat or poultry, plainly boiled vegetables and ripe fruit; which she followed regularly, and is now well, or at least was so in the month of June, 1820. "Ctise of Hemiplegia, Mr. Kreutzer, a German landscape gardener, whose occupation is that of planning or laying out gentlemen's pleasure grounds, Well known as such for" fifty miles round the City of Toulouse. On the 12th of February, 1818, while at work on the estate of Mr. Dumergue, about four miles out of town, he was suddenly seized with what he termed a dtfalliance, (a swooning or fainting fit), said that he never lost his recollection, but he fell, and could no more recover his stand tag position; he was surrounded by a number of workmen, whose labour he was directing, and who went to his immediate assistance; he soon recovered from what he termed his defaillance, but he could not recover the use of his limbs; the right arm and the whole of the right side were completely paralyzed, and he was carried in this state to his lodgings, about a quarter of a me from the spot where he was taken ill. I wa sent for, and saw him the same day; his mouth was drawn aside, and his tongue so much paralyzed that it was with difficulty he could articulate so as to be understood, it was moreover much furred; his skin was not hot, but dry and rough, his pulse feeble, not more than 60, yielding easily under the finger; his countenance drawn, respiration laborious; costive, and complaining of a heavy dull pain in the left side of his head. This man had been a very hard drinker, his favourite beverage was brandy, of which he had been known to drink a quart bottle in the day, but had latterly retrenched much of t...