Dynamics of nerve and muscle / [Charles Bland Radcliffe].

  • Radcliffe, Charles Bland, 1822-1889.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Dynamics of nerve and muscle / [Charles Bland Radcliffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of wanting activity, it is plain that the accompanying condition of the respiration must also be marked by wanting activity. (b.) on the history of sensation as exhibited IN THE CONDITION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM DURING NEURALGIA AND OTHER NEURALGIC DISORDERS. I. Neuralgia and pain of a neuralgic character would seem to be connected, not with a state of inflammation in any part of the nervous system, but with a state which may or may not issue in such inflammation— a state to which the name 'of irritation is commonly given, and which is marked, not by relaxation of vessels and hypercemia, but by contraction of vessels and ancemia. Pain is no very conspicuous symptom in the com- mon form of cerebral meningitis—that is, the tubei- cular form ; and in simple meningitis there is reason to believe that any severe pain in the head is the precursor of, rather than the attendant upon, the actual inflammation. Not long ago, for example, I had in the Westminster Hospital a well-marked case of acute simple cerebral meningitis in a boy aged fifteen. On my first visit, the face was pale and perspiring, the ears and head generally somewhat below the natural temperature, the pupils dilated, and the pulse con- tracted and feeble, and what was complained of was agonising pain in the head, with frequent chills and shivers. On my second visit, eight hours afterwards, the face was flushed, the head burning hot, the pupils