333 DISEASES Class III. 2. 1. 10. 



tines by the retrograde motions of the lacteals *, as probably 

 fometimes havens in diabetes. See Sett. XXVII. 2. Palfy of 

 one fide of the-fate is mentioned in Clafs II. 1. 4. 6. Paralyfis 

 of the lacteals, of the Hver, and of the veins, which are defcrib- 

 ed in Seel. XXVIII. XXX. and XXVII. do not belong to this 

 clafs, as they are not difeafes of voluntary motions. 



M. M. The electric fparks and fhocks, if ufed early in the 

 difeafe, are frequently of fervice. A purge of aloes, or calo- 

 mel. A vomit. Blifter. Saline draughts. Then the bark. 

 Mercurial ointment or fublimate, where the liver is evidently 

 difeafed •, or where the gutta rofea has previoufly exilted. Sud- 

 den alarm. Frequent voluntary efforts. Externally ether. 

 Volatile alkali. Fomentation on the head. Friction. When 

 children, who have fuffered a hemiplegia, begin to ufe the af- 

 fected arm, the other hand fhould be tied up for half an hour 

 three or four times a day ; which obliges them at their play to 

 ufe more frequent voluntary efforts with the difeafed limb, and 

 thus fooner to reftore the diffevered affociations of motion. 



In hemiplegia, as well as toward the end of fome fevers with 

 great debility, the parts about the loins are liable to mortify by 

 the preffure of a continued recumbency upon them, and in part 

 by the friction of thofe parts againft the meet, as the patient 

 Hides down again after being frequently raifed higher in his bed, 

 to prevent which a pillow fhould be put beneath the under- 

 fheet half way down the bed, as in Clafs II. 1. 2. 4. A folu- 

 tion of fugar of lead, or white lead in fine powder, or a cerate 

 of lapis calaminaris contributes to heal or to prevent thefe ex- 

 coriations. But the mod: efficacious preventive confifts in the 

 patient's wearing a pair of linen drawers ; by which means, 

 when he Aides down in his bed, the friction will be between the 

 fheet and his drawers, not between the meet and his (kin ; and 

 this greater friction will in general prevent his Hiding down in 

 bed, when his head and fhoulders are raifed on more pillows, 

 which will on this account alfo contribute much to his comfort ; 

 this is alfo worthy the attention of thofe dropfical patients, who 

 are necefhtated to lie with the head raifed high in bed. 



When thefe patients have any difficulty of fwallowing, they 

 fhould be raifed up when any fluid is put into the mouth, left it 

 fhould fuffocate them. See Apoplexia, No. 16. Nor fhould 

 young children be fed as they lie on their backs, as they are 

 then obliged to fwallow as much as the nurfe pleafes •, like one 

 of the punifhments formerly ufed in the inquifition, where the 

 uelinquent was made to fwallow many quarts of water, as lie 

 was chained down on his back, and was fuffocated by it. 



In paralyfis of the wrifts from lead, Mr. Clutterbuck has late- 

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