PARALYSIS

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: Medical Dictionary · 1909 · p. 3

may attack the power of motion or senza tion, or both. The causes include. hysteria, certain poisons (e.g., alcohol, lead, and the poisons of certain fevers), and disoase or injury of the brain, the spinal cord, or the nerves, and more rarely the muscles, Of ees the first tyro causes 202 [s. 392]