On the threatenings of apoplexy and paralysis, inorganic epilepsy, spinal syncope, hidden seizures, the resultant mania, etc. / by Marshall Hall.

Date:
1851
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    pears; he seems sensible of his situation, and endea- vours to express his feelings by signs. In the farther progress of this form of the disease, great variety occurs. In some cases, it passes gradually into apoplexy, per- haps after a few hours; in others, under the proper treatment, the patient speedily and entirely recovers. In many cases the recovery is gradual, and it is only at the end of several weeks or months that the com- plaint is removed. In another variety, the patient recovers so far as to be able to speak indistinctly, and to walk, dragging his leg by a painful effort, and after this makes no farther improvement. He may continue in this state for years, and be cut off by a fresh attack, or may die of some other disease without any recur- rence of the symptoms in his head. In a fifth variety, the patient neither recovers, nor becomes apoplectic; he is confined to bed, speechless and paralytic, but in possession of his other faculties, and dies gradually ex- hausted, without apoplexy, several weeks or months after the attack. 204. “ These three forms of disease frequently pass into one another; but they are very often met with, as they are here described, forming affections which difi’er remarkably from each other; and they appear very naturally to arrange themselves into the three classes which have here been referred to ;—first, those which are immediately and primarily apoplectic ; secondly, those which begin with a sudden attack of headache, and pass gradually into apoplexy ; thirdly.