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Continuation of the Case of John, Angel, page 85. -

April ’14th.-To-day there isa complete paralysis of the leftside of the body, and the nervesof, sensation as well as thosesubservient to voluntary move-ment appear to have suffered,though not in an equal degree.For whilst the loss of motion is

quite complete, that of sensa-tion is but partial; pulse about60, and weak; bowels regular,appetite and spirits good. Hehas still/however, a propensityto the indulgence of sleep.R Hydrargyri Submuriatis

gr, j.Pulveris Antimonialis, gr. jj.flat pulvis omni-nocte sumendus.

April 15.—Much the same asyesterday ; bowels regular ;skin rnoist, and of the usual tem-

perature, in which both sides

appear to partake without, anyevident increase or diminution ’,in either.

April 16.-Skin . natural ;bowels regular; appetite and

spirits good. Has no pain in thehead; paralysis commencing’from the angle- of the jaw, andextending down the whole ofthe left side.. There is alsosome affection, of the left eye,and -the corner of the mouth ofthe same side, which, howeverhardly, amount to paralysis.

April 17 and 18.—No parti-cular alteration.—Calomel andAntimony as before.

April 20.-Pulse 65, and

weak; bowels regular; appetiteand spirits good; has still a dis-position to sleep, though some-what less than .heretofore. Thesensation in the affected side.

may. be in a slight degree more.perfect. The powers of motionare, however, still completelylost; his mental faculties at thesame time appear to be in somemeasure impaired, and his cheer-fulness at present savours a gooddeal of inanity or idiotism. Itshould be borne in mind, how-ever, that we are narrating thecase of a child.—Powder con-tinued as before.On the 16th inst. another boy

was admitted suffering under theeffects of concussion from a fall.Coma and the usual symptomswere present, which have beenrelieved by venesection and

leeches ; two or three doses ofcalomel, and the exhibition oc-casionally of house medicine to ,evacuate the bowels, and the

application of cold epithems tothe scalp. On the 19th, about12 ounces of blood were drawnfrom the tempera! artery, sincewhich-he has,, in a great mea- sure, recovered from the stuporfollowing the accident.April 20th.—His pulse at pre-

sent, is quick and weak, andnot far short of 100.; tongue alittle furred; skin rather hotand dry ; pupils contracted.

R : Pulv: Antimonialis, gr.jjj.

Calomelanos, gr. j.Fiat pilula omni nocte su-

inenda.R: Liquoris Ammonia ace-

tatis, iv.Misturæ Camphoræ, i.- -

Fiat haustus ter die sumendus.

21st.—To-day he is tolerablysensible, at times ; but stuporor somnolency is present to a ,considerable extent, and hisbreathing approximates verynearly to stertor; pulse quick

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and weak, and pupils contracted.When roused and questionedrespecting’ the seat of his pain,he refers it to the superior ang’lesof the parietal bones, at the

points where the sagittal sutureusually commdnces ; there ishowever, rio external appear-ance of injury in the neighbollr-

hood of the parts, or, indeed, inany other of the scalp or.-cranium. ,

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April 21st.—The only opera-tions at this Hospital, since ourlast report,..have been two forfistula in ano.

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No accidents worth recordinghave occurred.

The following report of the Hospitals was read before the LordMayor, at Christ Church, on Monday last:—

CHRIST’S HOSPITAL.Children put forth Apprentice last year........................ 176Buried last year ..... 14Children under care of the Hospital at London andHert-) 1071ford .........’.......,................................ 1071

To be admitted on Presentation this year .................... 150 ‘

St. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL. 1411Patients admitted, cured, and discharged, last year:

In Patients ..................... 3725)Out -Patients ........,......... 4019 ...... 9343

Casualty Patients ........... 1600Buried last year ............................... 269

, Remained under care : ,

In Patients ..... 490Out patients ..... 160 .... 700,

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Casualty ............... 50So that there has been under care of this hospital last 10 ,312year ........ :....... : ..............., ...........year .............................................. -..

St. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.--There have been cured and discharged from this

Hospital last year—In Patients ..... 2874 .... 9,902- -

Out Patients ...... 7028Remaining- under Cure-In Patients ...... 448 ( . 834Out Patients ..... 386 ..... 834

Buried last year at expense ..... 248

So that there have been under care, of this Hospital.... 10,984,

BRIODEWELL HOSPITAL. ,

Vagrants committed ;bythe Lord Mayor and Aldermen .. 461Apprentices sent to solitary confinement .............. 29Persons passed to their different parishes ............. 83Apprentices to be ’put ’to different trades ..... 11

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BETHLEM HOSPITAL.Remaining’ 1st January, 1823. including- those on‘

leave—Curables ......................... 103 .... 226,

Incurables........................... 70 226

Criminals ......................... 53Admitted in 1823—Curables ..... 145

. Incurables ........... 6 .... 158Criminals ............... 7

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Discharged in 1823 -Curables . , ......... 165Incurables ..... 14 .... 181Criminals ........... 2

Remaining 31st Dec. last—Curables ...... 83Incurables...... ’62 .... 203Criminals...... 58 ——

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Foreign Department.

In a former number we men-tioned that a paper by M. PAS-CALIS had been lately readbefore the Royal Academy of

Medicine at Paris, in which M.PASCALIS stated that he hadtreated successfully some severecases of asthma, by galvanism.The cases have been recentlypublished in the Revue Medicale,from which we extract the twofollowing ; they tend very muchto confirm the opinions of our

countryman, WILSON PHILIP,oii this subject.

CASE I.Constant Asthma for the last ten yearsparoxysms vevy frequent in their- re-currence, and of long -duratioit;danger of suffocation; great depres-sion of the strength and spiritv; thepatient citred, ajter being galvanizedeight times. _ .

Madame ADE, thirty-two years ofage, had been asthmatic for the lastten years. The complaint had consi-derably increased within the two lastyears, to such a degree that on the 8thof last September, the day previous toher being galvanized for the first time,this lady was seized at *midnight witha fit of asthma, which continued tillthree in the morning. For the lastfortnight she had regularly every day

been attacked in the same manner, andat the same hour.The paroxysms were attended by the

following symptoms : they were tisher-ed in by a severe fit of coughing, andthe patient soon became in dangerof suffocation ; she was then lifted up’(for she had not strength sufiicient todo this herself), and placed near a

chair, against the back of which shesupported herself. The doors andwindows were obliged to be opened, inorder to obtain a curren of air ; therattle* and the cough were so violent,that the neighbours were disturbed bythem ; and besides these symptomsthere was a sense of choking present.At the termination of each paroxysm,the patient was completely exhausted.In the course of the complaint the

attacks generally returned for -fifteenor twenty days in succession ; afterthis period they abated : the patientthen. experienced an interval of twoor three weeks of ease, during whichtime she recovered a little from thestate of extreme weakness to whichshe had been reduced ; but at the mo-ment when she was thus beginning tobe convalescent ; the paroxysms. re-turned with increased force, andplunged her into the same state as be-fore. ,

Such was the situation of this lady

previous to her being galvanized.-Since she first tried tlie etlicacy of gal-vanism, her inspirations have beenmore free.and deep ; she has been able

* By this term, in French le raIl’, is under-stood the noise produced by the accumulationof mucous in the trachea or bronchia, causingan interruption to the ’free passage of air-Ed of The Lancet.