The human brain : its structure, physiology and diseases. With a description of the typical forms of brain in the animal kingdom / by Samuel Solly.

Date:
1847
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Credit: The human brain : its structure, physiology and diseases. With a description of the typical forms of brain in the animal kingdom / by Samuel Solly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Irritation of the excito-motory system Two kinds of epilepsy Centric and centripetal Causes of epilepsy Cerebral disease Gastro-hepatic irritation Generative disorders Determinations of blood to the head—the choroid plexus Headaches in epilepsy Theory of the pathology of epilepsy Various opinions respecting the seat of the disease Hypersemia of the brain during the epi- leptic paroxysm The use of digitalis CEnanthe crocata Effects of tying the carotid Throbbings of the carotids Mental excitement Cold, a cause of epilepsy Remote causes of epilepsy Venereal poison Inflammation of dura mater Prognosis in epilepsy The various causes and kinds of epi- lepsy seen in practice Determinations of blood to the head The pulse in epilepsy Treatment Local and therapeutic Aperients Bleeding Oxyde of silver, zinc, &c. Digitalis Its modus operandi Shower bath D. Organic diseases of the brain, 641— 673 Morbid growths from neurine, or the membranes not the result of simple hypersemia Tumours within the skull, 641 Mercury and its iodurets The ordinary reports of these cases almost valueless Dura mater Tumours outside of the membrane ab- sorbing the bone and protru- ding outwards Malignant or cancerous growths Diagnosis difficult Pulsatory movements of the brain Ulceration of the integuments Apoplectic terminations Inflammatory tendencies Non-malignant growths Their various characters Hydatids of plexus choroides Haematoma of the brain The best pathognomic signs Headaches—their character Vomitings—their kind Organs of sense disturbed Convulsions and their form Paralysis G astro-hepatic disorders Giddiness—of what sort Hypertrophy of the brain, 662—673 Brain hypertrophied like the heart A result of fatal precocity Its post-mortem character Induration of the brain The kinds of hypertrophy Simulates hydrocephalus Its causes obscure Relative weight of brain in disease The co-existence of enlarged thymus gland The aspect of passive hypertrophy Constitutional symptoms Distinction between hypertrophy and hydrocephalus The treatment