"Paresis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be little doubt of the deleterious effect occasioned both to public and private morals by this deliberate exaltation of mental susceptibility on the part of the early Victorian. In many cases we can detect the evidences of incipient paresis. The undue access of emotion frequently assumed a pathological character. The sight of a daisy, of a withered leaf or an upturned sod, seemed to disturb the poet's mental equipoise. Spring unnerved him. The ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... Whatever the cause in any given case, whether cerebral, spinal or peripheral, organic or functional; whatever the treatment that may be indicated—and this should never be neglected—for the primary trouble, the direct electrical treatment of the paralysis, sub-paralysis or paresis, being purely symptomatic treatment, remains in the great majority of cases essentially the same. The objects to be aimed at are two, viz: first, a normal state of nutrition of the affected muscles; second, their normal contractility. In other words, we are to endeavor to prevent ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig |
