A statement of the early symptoms which lead to the disease termed water in the brain : with observations on the necessity of a watchful attention to them, and on the fatal consequences of their neglect / By G.D. Yeats.

  • Yeats, G. D. (Grant David), 1773-1836.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A statement of the early symptoms which lead to the disease termed water in the brain : with observations on the necessity of a watchful attention to them, and on the fatal consequences of their neglect / By G.D. Yeats. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (NN) p. 108. See dissections at the end of Dr. C. Smyth’s Treatise, Mr. Abernethy’s Sur- gical Observations, where this subject is welk illustrated; Dr. Ferriar’s ingenious observations on conversion of diseases in his Med. Histories, and Hoffman De Generatione Morborum ex morbis & de commutaté Morborum, &c. A very instructive case is published by Mr. Fairburn in the Medico Chirurg. Journal for June 1817. The disease of the head came on, and proved fatal, from the digestive irritations not being attended to in time: there was great soreness of the epigastric region, with swelling of the abdo- men and other symptoms of high irritation there, which existed for some time before any affection of the head was observable, and yet on dissection the head only was found diseased ; the abdominal viscera being sound, (OO) p. 108. See Underwood on the Dis- eases of Children, vol. i. p. 224. *¢ Jfa child should survive the age of dentition, “ it rarely is afterwards attacked by phrenitis,”’ Comment. on the Diseases of Children by the late Dr. Clarke. The high character which Dr. Clarke so justly bore, and the weight of authority with which his remarks are stamped, have given a currency to his opinions; it is therefore neces- sary to say that this observation must be received