Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the Brain and spinal cord / by John Abercrombie.

  • Abercrombie, John, 1780-1844.
Date:
1829
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    ing phenomena connected with the disease in a chronic (%tWf*dt,to odof w^iateoq sdi al .besrf sift ai zmolqm^p. orfi ■«[ * flhitomv h-utiiiS sdi bnirbd <nhnd gift Vrarfqarrneri I. In the state of Simple Inflammation, the affection seems in general to be characterized by headach and con- vulsion ; but in the more chronic form of it, as in Cases XXV. and XXVI., we see it productive of paralysis without convulsion, and fatal in a state of simple inflamma- tion, with all the symptoms of perfect apoplexy. On the other hand, in Case XXVIII., the palsy preceded the convulsion. In some of the cases which terminated by the encysted abscess, there is reason to believe that the inflammatory stage was characterized by convulsion of one or more limbs, followed by temporary paralysis, and that the permanent paralysis took place when the disease pass- ed into suppuration. In some of the other cases, again, it seems probable that the inflammatory state was productive of an attack of palsy, exactly resembling the ordinary hemiplegia from other causes. This probably took place in the very interesting case, (No. XXXII.) Of the dis- ease in its more chronic form, an important example is re- lated by Dr. Treutler.* A woman, aged 30, had been ill for two months with dropsy, which had followed inter- mittent fever, and was connected with disease in the spleen. In the third month of her illness, she complained of a feeling of weight in the occiput towards the right side, with dimness of sight, and a great propensity - to sleep. Her hearing became obtuse, her speech was very indistinct, and her memory was lost. She at last seem- ed to lose the power of every voluntarily muscle, so that she cotdd neither move her legs nor arms, nor raise her head. Finally, she had convulsions and apoplectic attacks, and died'suddenly about the end of the third month of her • Treutler. Auctarium ad Helminthologiam Huniaui Corporis, p. 1.