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A limb that is paralysed has no sense or motion, it is flaccid, loose and heavy, numbed with cold: raised in the air it falls, and if the ill is of long standing this limb becomes stringy, wasted, withered. To sleep while cool by day, or when the shining moon appears, damp or an obstructive cold and sluggish humour, all cause this, so that the animal spirits no longer flow, exert no influence and the movement of the part is annulled.
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Du Port, F. (1988). The Signs and Causes of Paralysis. In: Diehl, H. (eds) The Decade of Medicine or The Physician of the Rich and the Poor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73715-2_27
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