On the causes, nature, and treatment of palsy and apoplexy : of the forms, seats, complications and morbid relations of paralytic and apoplectic diseases / by James Copland.

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1850
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Credit: On the causes, nature, and treatment of palsy and apoplexy : of the forms, seats, complications and morbid relations of paralytic and apoplectic diseases / by James Copland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pent aria and capsicum by Falconer ; guaiacum by Fotiiergill and Johnston ; ammoniacum by Bourget; pyrethrum, internally, by Oxley ; cajuput oil, both in- ternally and externally, by Pereboom and Thunberg ; naphtha by Ramazzini ; camphor dissolved in turpentine by Shumacher ; this substance dissolved in naphtha by Reichsanzeiger ; 7nush by Truener, Lceffler, and others ; castor by Pauli ; the tinctura lyttce, internally, by Vaughan, May, Brisbane, &c. ; phosphorus dis- solved in ether, internally and externally, by Brera and Gaultier-Claubry ; and the nitrous oxyde gas by Beddoes, Hill, and Pinel. It is very probable that these may severally prove of service when judiciously prescribed, especially in those circumstances of the dis- ease to which I have above (§ 657.) limited the use of stimulants and tonics. In the same category aconite may also be noticed ; it having been recommended by Stcerck and Greding ; also opium and belladonna, which have, severally, been used by Stoll, Tiiomann, and others, in palsy from lead. 660. (<;.) The circumstances which admit of the in- ternal use of stimuli also allow a recourse to electromotive agencies, in the several forms in which they have been employed ; and, in no disease have they been more generally and more empirically resorted to than in this. Electricity, in the form of shock, bath, sparks, &c., although chiefly prescribed by persons ignorant of me- dicine, has received the cautious sanction of Vander Belen, Hart, and others, in the most chronic and asthenic cases. Meyer, Bang, and Percival ad\ise it chiefly for paraplegia and lead-palsy; and tncy, with Stoll, De Haen, Quarin, and Falconer, doubt its efficacy in other circumstances. I he electro-galvanic influence was first recommended by V olta in this dis-