An account of the appearances observed in the dissection of two of three individuals presumed to have perished in the storm of the 3d, and whose bodies were discovered in the vicinity of Leith on the morning of the 4th, November 1821 : with some reflections on the pathology of the brain / by George Kellie.

  • Kellie, George, -1829.
Date:
[1824]
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Credit: An account of the appearances observed in the dissection of two of three individuals presumed to have perished in the storm of the 3d, and whose bodies were discovered in the vicinity of Leith on the morning of the 4th, November 1821 : with some reflections on the pathology of the brain / by George Kellie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and tlie brain removed; aild, on the other, the ves- sels within the head are found replenished with blood, though their continuations without the head are empty; II. Another condition, which hks been presumed to have a tendency to' produce fulness and conges- tion of the vessels of the brain, and consequently to act as an occasional or exciting cause of apo- plexy, is stooping or other low positions of the head. I believe, however, that the influence of posture has, in this respect, been somewhat oven-ated. I think it quite certain, at least, that in a previously sound and healthy condition of the brain and its vessels, no change of posture can impel into, or confine more or less blood within those vessels than natu- rally belongs to them, though I am willing to allow that the general pressure of the circulating fluid may, in this way, be, Under certain circumstances, increased or diminished, and the circulation through the head accelerated, retarded, or disturbed. Healthy individuals may stand on their head, hang by their heels, or change the posture of their bodies in every possible way, as we observe in the gambols 6f school-boys, or the niore curious feats of adult and professed tmnblers, without sustaining the slightest injury or inconvenience. Many of the occupations and employments of industrious life are carried on in a continued stooping posture, as in the acts of weeding, reaping, gleaning, planting, digging, washing, and many such like. Miners, shoemakers