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118 GASES ILLUSTRATING THE TREATMENT.
The nerve frictions in the neck are continued for some minutes.
The whole is to be concluded with general petrissage of the
abdomen, accompanied by nerve frictions over the dorsal sensory
nerves.
In the case of the giii Papic, I gave on the first days of the
appearance of albumen in the urine kneading of the kidneys. On
the 22nd I gave vibrations instead, and on the following day the
quantity of urine was increased and the albumen diminished.
The treatment in both cases lasted from twenty-five to thirty-
five minutes, and the patients were treated twice a day.
VI. POST-DIPHTHEEITIC PAEALYSIS.
I treated the following case during the summer of 1887, at
Leipsic, in the clinic of Dr. ]\Ioebius, the well-known authority
on ISTervous Diseases ; and I have already recorded it in the
medical press.*
Mary A., aged 15, a native of Leipsic, was seized with
diphtheria in the second week of December 1886, and was
for four weeks confined to her bed. On several occasions she
was nearly choked, and her mother probably saved her life
by tearing away large pieces (grosse Stilcke lucggerissen) with
a spoon. A younger member of the family, a boy, three years
old, died of diphtheria at that time. The patient’s progress
towards recovery was very slow. She could not go out of
doors until the middle of February 1887. The soft palate
remained paralysed for a considerable time. Even in May and
June regurgitation of food into the nose now and then occurred.
About the middle of May, the patient began to feel weakness
in the legs, and consequently difficulty in walking. She was sent
into the country, but returned after a fortniglit in a worse con-
dition. The weakness increased day by day, until at last she wns
* Medical Preai and Circular, 25tli Jul}’ 1888.
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