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Show '1 144 Eridenre from tile sensorial functions. 14.5 and antispasmodic worm medicine, of which, produced the seizure. at the instance of his sister, whom alone he and there actually was, near the ball of the could hear, he took several doses. Upon this the attack appeared almost totally to leave him. Nor was it necessary to confine him in the arm-chair. He looked exhausted and it was therefore proposed to put him to bed. But hardly had he got upon his feet when he He was nevertheless began to rave afresh. forced into bed and more of the medicine ad ministered. He now soon grew composed, spoke rationally and slept perfeCtly well the whole of the night. In the morning scarce had he moved from the I desired to see the foot: great toe, a small, reddish elevation. The moment I made pressure upon it, the seizure returned with violence, and to appease the phrenzy in some degree I was obliged to retire. Meanwhile I sent for a surgeon and put the pa.tient into the hands of four stout men. Aninciu sion being made upon the elevated place, a very trifling portion of glass presented itself and was taken out with a small forceps. Much as the patient had raved during the operation, with side of the bed, when it became necessary, on equal snddenness did all the symptoms vanish: and he was surprized on being told of all the senseless things he had uttered and begged par- account of the recommencing phrenzy, to put don." him intoit again. Iarrived and he was now As the seizure, ac« not violent against me. cording to the account, seemed only to come on when he stood up, I asked, whether any thing had happened to his feet. They only knew that the day but one before he had come plaincd of being pinched by tight shoes. Four years ago indeed he had trod a piece of glass into the right foot, but immediately tooliit out, and had never since complained of that foot. I mentioned it as very possible that some glass might have been let" in the foot, and by I‘C' Cciving another position from the pinching ( it" the shoe, it might have irritated a nerve and produced (Dr. Joerdens ap} quelcmd. Jomwai. iv. 227.) These facts and the speedy subsie dence of symptomatic fever upon the removal of a diseased limb, as also of epilepsy andofirrim tations under a different form, upon cutting a partially divided nerve compleatly through above the injury, or taking out a little tumour that presses upon a nerve, are to me probable proofs that these symptoms all depend upon some more subtle, sudden and variable move: ments than are observed in inflammation. I would not say that inflammation may not de« pend upon a different exertion of the same in-» tluence. But certainly in a degree correspono dent to the disorder of the sensorial functions, r. if. 3 wow MOS: |