834 DISEASES CLASS III. 2. 1. 5. 



snow or iced water for a few minutes, and then covering it 

 with warm flannel, and this frequently repeated, might, by ac- 

 cumulation of sensorial power, contribute to restore it to a state 

 of voluntary excitability. As this accumulation of sensorial 

 power, and consequent glow, seem, in the present case, several 

 times to have contributed to restore the numbness or inability of 

 those muscles, which at length became paralytic. See Class I. 

 2. 3.21. 



3VL M. Ether externally. Friction. Saline warm bath. 

 Electricity. Mercurial ointment. See Class I. 2. 4. 8. 



5. Raucedo paralytica. Paralytic hoarseness consists in the 

 almost total loss of voice, which sometimes continues for months, 

 or even years, and is occasioned by inability or paralysis of the 

 recurrent nerves which serve the muscles of vocality, by open- 

 ing or closing the larynx. The voice generally returns suddenly, 

 even so as to alarm the patient. A young lady, who had many 

 months been affected with almost a total loss of voice, and had 

 in vain tried variety of advice, recovered her voice in an instant, 

 on some alarm as she was dancing at an assembly, Was this 

 owing to a greater exertion of volition than usual? like the 

 dumb young man, the son of Croesus, who is related to have 

 cried out, when he saw his father's life endangered by the sword of 

 his enemy, and to have continued to speak ever afterwards. Two 

 young ladies in this complaint seemed to be cured by electric 

 shocks passed through the larynx every day for a fortnight. See 

 Raucedo catarrhalis, Class II. 1. 3. 5. 



M. M. An emetic. Electric shocks. Mustard-seed, a large 

 spoonful swallowed whole, or a little bruised, every morning. 

 Valerian. Burnt sponge. Blisters on each side of the larynx. 

 Sea-bathing. A gargle of decoction of seneca. Friction. Fre- 

 quent endeavours to shout and sing. 



6. VlsiccB urinaricB paralysis. Paralysis of the bladder is fre- 

 quently a symptom in irritative fever; in this case the patient 

 makes no water for a day or two; and the tumour of the blad- 

 der distended with urine may be seen by the shape of the abdo- 

 men, as if girt by a chord below the navel, or distinguished by 

 the hand. Many patients in this situation make no complaint, 

 and suffer great injury by the inattention of their attendants; 

 the water must be drawn off once or twice a day by means of a 

 catheter, and the region of the bladder gently pressed by the 

 hand, whilst the patient is kept in a sitting or erect posture. See 

 Class II. 2. 2. 6. 



M. M. Bark. Wine. Opium, a quarter of a grain every six 

 hours. Balsam of copaiva or of Peru. Tincture of cantharides 

 $0 drops twice a day, or repeated small blister?. 



