A commentary on apoplectic and paralytic affections : and on diseases connected with the subject.

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1721-1798.
Date:
1792
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Credit: A commentary on apoplectic and paralytic affections : and on diseases connected with the subject. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There is no comment neeeffary, on the \ effects of bliftering in this cafe-f-; nor can there be any doubt of a preternatural degree of irritability in the habit; of the irritation beginning in the ftomach, and producing the fymptoms in the manner defcribed> in the firft fpecies of nervous apoplexy ; but in a lefs degree: for we fee, • > * not only in this, but in all other fpecies of this clafs, the diforder is not attended with fo profound a fleep, as in the“ firft fpecies; the patient is delirious, it is true, but though he fleeps harder than com- mon, and fometimes fnores a little, yet he has not any apoplectic fonorous refpi- ration; and both his fleeping and foot- ing, have more the appearance of being natural, than in the firft fpecies of this . difeafe. The pulfe, though perhaps full, has f See Baglivi de ufu &r abufu veficant: Alfo our Treatife on Childbed Fevers, p. no. I have iince been informed of an inftance with frmilar fymptoms, which ended in death. not