Paper, 'Case of a cataleptic woman' by Richard Reynell

Description

Reynell shares the case study of a young woman, Ann Bullard, who 'had been for sometime [sic] irregular in her menses, and very much afflicted from the loss of a friend', and who suffers from head and stomach pains as well as a 'general disorder'. Reynell describes Bullard as 'senseless, stiff, and void of feeling [...] it was thought she was dead', diagnosing her with a 'cataleptic fit'. He goes on to describe the treatment for her condition.

Subject: Medicine / Paralysis

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The case of a cataleptick woman'

Read to the Royal Society on 19 April 1733

Reference number

CLP/14ii/42

Earliest possible date

11 July 1730

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

12 pages

Format

Manuscript