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Excerpt from A Probationary Chirurgical Essay on Paralysis of the Lower Extremities From Diseased Spine: Submitted, by the Authority of the President and His Council, to the Examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, When Candidate for Admission Into Their Corporation, in Conformity to Their Regulations Respecting the Admission of Ordinary Me
By general paraltsis, I mean that which proceeds from a compression of some part of the brain, the great centre of nervous in¿u ence. The part, thus paralysed, is often very small, and at a great distance from the head; perhaps a single finger, or a single joint of a finger. But however tri¿ing at the time, the disease may appear, it carries in its nature this leading charaéter, that it depends on a cause existing in the brain; and shews in the system a disposition to more extensive affec tions of the same nature, which may render the individual for ever a burden to himself.
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