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Impulse to this development was the success which Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna had in curing paretic Austrian soldiers by means of inoculations of malaria germs.

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In three Illinois insane asylums 37 women and 35 men paretic inmates were held firmly down on their cots.

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A paretic patient can never be completely cured.

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Public Enemy No. 1, for years a mentally incompetent paretic; following a stroke and pneumonia; at his palatial villa near Miami Beach.

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On October 22d, he complained of numbness in the left leg, which gradually increased, the leg at the same time becoming paretic, so that the patient required the aid of a cane for ordinary locomotion.

From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.