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CASE

OF

PARALYSIS,

WITHOUT LOSS OF SENSATION,

FROM DISEASE OF THE CERVICAL MEDULLA.

BY JOHN WEBSTER, M.D.,

CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO ST. GEORGE'S AND ST. JAMES'S DISPENSARY, ETC.

READ NOVEMBER 8TH, 1842.

CONSIDERABLE attention has recently been directed by medical practitioners to affections of the nervous system, especially since the physiological experiments and discoveries of the late Sir Charles Bell were made known to the profession. Besides the investigations of that celebrated anatomist, Dr. Marshall Hall, Mr. John Shaw, M. Foville, Sig. Bellingeri, and other physiologists, have by their labours thrown so much light upon these important subjects, that many hitherto intricate questions connected with the functions and diseases of nerves are now much better understood, and are more successfully treated than previously. Nevertheless, believing that any additional facts respecting inquiries of

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