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Dr. Parry on a Case of nervous Affection . 
critical period of female life, a widow, mother of two children, 
thin, and of a middle size, had been habitually free from gout, 
rheumatism, heemorrhoids, eruptions, and all other disorders, 
except those usually called nervous, and occasional colds, one 
of which, about two years and a half before, had been accom- 
panied with considerable cough, and had still left some short- 
ness of breathing, affecting her only when she used strong 
muscular exertion, as in walking up stairs, or up hill. 
In February 1803, after sitting for a considerable time in a 
room without a fire, in very severe weather, she was so much 
chilled as to feel, according to her own expression, “ as if her 
“ blood within was cold.” In order to warm herself, she 
walked briskly for a considerable time about the house, but 
ineffectually. The coldness continued for several hours, 
during which she was seized with a numbness or sleepiness of 
her left side, together with a momentary deafness, but no 
privation or hebetude of the other senses, or pain or giddiness 
of the head. After the deafness had subsided, she became 
preternaturally sensible to sound in the ear of the affected 
side, and felt a sort of rushing or tingling in the fingers of 
the left hand, which led her to conclude that “ the blood went 
“ too forcibly there.” 
Though the coldness went off, what she called numbness 
still continued, but without the least diminution of the power 
of motion in the side affected. In about six weeks, the numb- 
ness extended itself to the right side. 
Among various ineffectual remedies for these complaints, 
blisters were applied to the back, and the inside of the left 
v arm above the elbow. The former drew well. The latter 
inflamed without discharging : so that a poultice of bread and 
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