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

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    217. “ A gentleman, aged about 70, of full habit, and having suffered from haemorrhoids, with occasional loss of blood, and from gout, sustained a severe afflic- tion in the loss of his son. He became liable to awake in the night with a suffocative feeling in the throat, making a peculiar noise. In the day too he was sub- ject to giddiness, with a slight cloudy appearance before the eyes, and a sense of tightness about the throat. 218. “ He had, at the time of this report, fre- quent headache and giddiness, and dimness of sight; his neck was thick, the external jugulars and the tem- poral arteries prominent.” 219. I extract the following important case from . the useful work of Dr. Cheyne* ; 220. “ August 26, 1804. Mr. A n, set. 65. I was called to visit this gentleman, in lodgings, at Bath Street, where he was residing for the convenience of sea-bathing, which he had been advised to use for some weeks. He had dined in Edinburgh, and had afterwards walked home. On his arrival, his daughter observed only that he was exceedingly flushed and warm, and that he was perspiring very copiously about the head and face. While she was preparing some drink for him, he fell from his chair insensible. On my arrival, he was laid in bed, his head and shoulders supported by his wife, and my father in the act of Op. cit. p. 94,