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the ca«e is of longer standing, and the constitution is in a state of debility^ 

 those evacuating measures would be improper; and instead of them we must 

 be contented with stimulating applications, aided by such exercise as the 

 patient is able to take. It is surprising how much may be done in cases appar- 

 ently very hopeless. The patient must not be discouraged at the apparent bad 

 success of his first efforts at motion, but must persevere, and his perseverance 

 will probably at last be rewarded. The applications proper for palsied limbs 

 are such as the following: Ammoniated oil, camphorated oil, cajeput oil, when 

 it cpx be got; turpentine and oil, warm sea-water, warm salt, stinging with 

 nettles, mustard, etc. Great benefit is often derived from strychnia, but this 

 drug is so powerful that it ought to be given only by a medical man. Elec- 

 tricity and galvanism are also frequently had recourse to; also the use of 

 the Bath or other mineral waters pumped upon the palsied limbs. Our choice 

 of internal medicines must be determined by the state of the constitution. If 

 there be any excitement, or inflammatory tendency, or any probability that 

 the palsy may be followed by apoplexy, all internal stimulants must be avoided; 

 and it is only in old cases, unattended by fever, that we are to give such medi- 

 cines as guaiac, iron, aromatics, or the like. Paralytic limbs should be kept warm, 

 and well covered with flannel . The diet should be light and nutritive. The 

 patient should take what exercise he can; and if he is unable to do it by his own 

 exertions, he must have it by a carriage, or by sailing, or by a swing. In the 

 palsy of the lower limbs from diseases of the spine, issues to the back, or to 

 the neighborhood of the diseased vertebrae, are of great service. (See Apoplexy. ) 



Remarks. — Many astonishing cures have been effected by taking the min- 

 eral baths at Mt. Clemens and Ypsilanti, Mich. There may be other places, 

 and I have no doubt there are, where the mineral waters will have the same 

 effect. I only speak of these from my own knowledge. 



Palsy in children occurs pretty frequently, and attacks infants and young 

 persons in different degrees. It often attacks one side at first, and gradually 

 comes on the other side. It is generally attended with costiveness and deranged 

 state of the bowels ; and, accordingly, a course of purgative medicines of con- 

 siderable activity, as jalap and calomel,' or rhubarb and calomel, in no long 

 time effects a cure. Blistering on the head, or on the palsied limb, may be 

 tried; and leeches to the temples, when the head is much affected. If the 

 palsy is owing to water in the head, it is to be feared the case is hopeless. 

 Tonic medicines and external stimulants are proper, when there is no fever 

 present. Electricity is often a valuable assistant to other remedies. 



SUFFOCATION.— Is the extinction of life by the function of breath- 

 ing being violently stopped. This may happen from hanging and drowning; 

 from blood or matter bursting from the lungs into the branches of the wind 

 pipe; from inflammation or croup, producing a false membrane or thickened 

 mucus in the air passages from foreign bodies sticking in the same; from large 

 pieces of meat in the gullet pressing on the back of the wind pipe; and many 

 similar incidents. Where the suffocation is complete nothing can be done; 

 but where it is only threatened the proper means of relief are to be had 

 recourse to, rarying, of course, according to circumstances. Foreign bodies 



