Synopsis of apoplexy and epilepsy, with observations on trachelismus, laryngismus, and tracheotomy; and the proposal for a hospital for epileptics / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Synopsis of apoplexy and epilepsy, with observations on trachelismus, laryngismus, and tracheotomy; and the proposal for a hospital for epileptics / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. The present Croonian Lectures, with those of MDCCCL and MDCCCLI, and several other publications, are intended to be ultimately comprised in one volume. It is for this reason, and to preserve uniformity, that I have preserved the quarto form which will be required by some Plates in the other parts, and that I preserve the designation of Synopsis. I have been repeatedly requested to gather my various works together. The terms Trachelismus and Laryngismus, which I have adopted in these pages, when viewed in connection with their exciting causes, the modes of action of these, first on the muscles of the Neck, and the Larynx, then on the Venous Network of this region, and then on the Nervous Centres, contain whole volumes of living Pathology. This living pathology I recommend for further cultivation, in the place of that mere caput mortuum presented in post-mortem, or it might be designated post-morbum, appearances. I also recommend that this pathology be pursued in a special manner in our private practice. It never can be adequately investigated in the patients who resort to our Hospitals, whose cases are chiefly those of organic Origin, or involving organic disease as Effects of the previous tra- chelismus and laryngismus. I would finally observe, that, although I have treated of trachelismus and of laryngismus as distinct, and of apoplexy as cerebral, and of epilepsy as