Obscure diseases of the brain and mind / by Forbes Winslow.

  • Winslow, Forbes, 1810-1874.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Obscure diseases of the brain and mind / by Forbes Winslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attending, suddenly exclaimed, I am gone! and immediately lapsed in a slate of apoplectic coma ! A gentleman during dinner complained suddenly of giddi- ness and sickness. He retired to another room, where he was found a minute afterwards supporting himself by a bed-post, confused and pale. He soon became comatose, and died. A person in good health, after using rather violent exercise in the forenoon, returned home to dinner, and whilst sitting near the fire, without any warning started up, pushed his chair backwards with violence, and exclaimed, Oh, my head ! Immediately afterwards he fell on the floor in a state of apoplectic insensibility. A literary man, whilst speaking at a public meeting, was suddenly seized with an uneasy sensation in his head. He said it feels as if it would burst, and that the brain is too big for my skull. He returned home, became apoplectic, and died on the evening of that day. A clergyman, whilst preaching, was suddenly observed to stop, and put his hand to his head. He then attempted to proceed with his sermon, but articulated indistinctly, and had evidently lost his recollection. He preserved himself from falling by grasping the side of the pulpit. He was immediately removed from the church, was found cold, pale, speechless, and paralytic, and died in a few days after the attack.* A young lad who had not previously complained of ill health, or of any uneasy head symptoms, suddenly awoke from an apparent state of profound slumber, and began screaming, Oh, my head ! my head ! my head ! Before his parents could be summoned into the room, he became in- sensible, and died without being restored to a state of con- sciousness If * After death there was found in this case extensive extravasation of blood in the left ventricle, which had passed partly into the right, by laceration of the septum. jill the arteries of the brain ivere extensi-vely ossified.— Abercrombie. + All the ventricles were completely filled with coagulated blood. In the substance of the left hemisphere, there was a cavity formed by laceration of the cerebral substance, filled also by the coagulum, and communicating with the ventricle. There was no other morbid appearance.— Abercrombie.