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

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1721-1798.
Date:
1792
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    Vomits, when im proper. tion, without clanger of thofe effects we > have feen from their ufe in the nervous apoplexy ; and if what is faid is found to be true, concluding with fome writers, that apoplexy, lethargy, cams, &c. are fimilar difeafes, mud: often be productive of mifchief. I It cannot be fuppofed, that men of found judgment will ever think of giving vomits in the coma, we have defcribed. It is the difeafe in which they have been for- bid, in treating of the apoplexy, without difcrimination ; and it is impoffible to ufe them with propriety in comatofe af- fections without attending to thediftinc- tions we have made. However, it is fome- times unfortunately out of the power of art, to give relief in this kind of coma, and I apprehend, it is from this diforder, chiefly, that the modern caufe, affigned for apoplexy, has been drawn. Befides the common appearance of the veffels on the outfide of the head being over- loaded with blood, the veffels within the fculj