333 DISEASES CLASS III. 2. i. 10. 



tines by the retrograde motions of the lacteals ; as probably 

 fometimes happens in diabetes. iSee Sett. XXVII. 2. Palfyof 

 one fide of the face is mentioned in Clafs II. i. 4. 6. Paralyfis 

 of the lacteals, of the liver, 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 fhccks, 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 

 fed ; or where the guttarofea has previoufly exiited. Sud- 

 ilen alarm. Frequent voluntary efforts. Externally ether. 

 Volatile alkali. Fomentation on the head. Friction. When 

 children, who have fullered a hemipiegia, begin to ufe the af- 

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

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

 nib more frequent voluntary efforts with the difeafed limb, and 

 boner to rcitore the difievered affociations of motion. 



In hemiple^ia, as well as toward the end of fome fevers with 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 coriations. But the mott efficacious preventive confifts in the 

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

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

 t and his drawer.;, not between the (heet and his (kin ; and 

 this greater friction will in general prevent his fliding down in 

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

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

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

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



When thefe patients have any difficulty of fwallowing, they 

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

 ihould iufiocate them. See Apoplexia, No. 16. Nor mould 

 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 punifhrnents formerly ufed in the inquifition, where the 

 delinquent was made to fwallow many quarts of water, as he 

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



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



