enses that need the help of proper
spectacles, require for a permanent cure the removal of the cause.
Sciatic neuralgia, one of the most common and painful forms of nerve
irritation, is particularly amenable to treatment by the modern means of
cure used in our practice at the Invalids' Hotel.

We find, as a rule, that severe headaches and neuralgias are but the
forerunners of more serious conditions, and are therefore deserving of
special attention. They should be corrected as early as possible, before
any organic changes have occurred.

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PARALYSIS OR PALSY;

LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA AND KINDRED AFFECTIONS.

Paralysis is an affection characterized by loss of muscular power or by
the sense of touch, taste, sight or smell becoming impaired from injury
to a nerve by accident or disease.

The disease is sometimes due to simple lack of nerve force or power.
This may come from interference with the blood supply of the nerve
centres, as in hysterical palsy and reflex paralysis. Frequently the
power of speech is affected in this way, ability to remember and
difficulty in pronunciation of certain words being the most common.
Certain affections of the womb and its appendages, in women, and, in
men, stricture of the urethra, adherent prepuce, or foreskin, with
wounds and injuries, many times of nerves and organs remote from the
paralyzed points, cause the loss of power.

THE CAUSES OF PARALYSIS are very numerous. Whatever destroys, or impairs
the natural structure of nervous matter, or whatever interferes
materially with the conducting power of nerve-fibre, or the generating
power of the nerve-centres, will produce a paralysis, the extent of
which will depend upon the amount of nervous matter affected. Thus
paralysis may be due to disease of the brain arising from apoplexy; to
abscess, softening, syphilitic or other tumors, or epilepsy; to disease
of the spinal cord, or marrow; to disease of the structures which
surround the spinal cord, producing pressure upon it; to injury or
compression of a nerve, by which its conducting power it impaired; to
the effects of diphtheria, hysteria, or rheumatism. It may also be due
to poisoning of nervous matter with opium, lead, arsenic, or mercury; or
to the retention of poisonous substances which are generated in the
living body and which should pass off through the excretory organs, as
the elements of the urine and bile.

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