An inaugural dissertation on the apoplexy : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing ..., the Trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania : for the degree of Doctor of Medicine : on the 19th. day of May, A.D. 1794. / by John Lamb, Jun. of New-York.

  • Lamb, John.
Date:
M,DCC,XCIV [1794]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the apoplexy : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing ..., the Trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania : for the degree of Doctor of Medicine : on the 19th. day of May, A.D. 1794. / by John Lamb, Jun. of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wavs been confidered to be of an hereditary nature; until Doctor Brown in his elements of medicine de- nied their exiftence altogether :—notwithstanding, he was certainly a man of erudition, and has in my opinion, gone confiderable length in eluci- dating many parts of medicine ; yet I cannot agree with him in this particular, becaufe there does evidently appear a foundation forfuch a diftin&ion, if we will only reflect on the great limilitude there frequently is, between parents and their offspring, particularly, as it respects temperament, fabric of body, and peculiarity of mind. But what is more directly in point is, that there are innumerable in- flances recorded in the hiftories of phyfic, by men of the firft eminence in their profeffion, of chil- drei becoming affe&ed with difeafes which were peculiar to their anceftors or parents ; when no evident external or internal caule could be fuppof- ed to have produced them, except hereditary pre- difpofition, and peculiar organization of the folids of the body. From thefe circumftances, there is I think, great reafon to fuppoie that apoplexy might with as much propriety, be ranked under the clafs of hereditary diforders ; as even fcrophula, mania or the pulmo- nary confumption. It is an obfervation of medical writers, that this difeafe happens more frequently in the winter fearon, or in fprings which are moderately warm, and have followed fevere and cold winters. There may I think, be fome foundation for fuch an opi- nion, as it is well known, that the phlogiftic dia- thefis of the fyftem, at fuch feafons, is more apt