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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    *«‘ quantity of water has been collected, it « might, probably, be sometimes cured ;”’ and, he adds, that “ he has never been so «lucky as to cure one patient, who had “ those symptoms which, with certainty; « denote the disease,” (E). This has un- questionably arisen from the symptoms of the disease not being known or understood, until, from their alarming progress, an ex- tensive and fatal impression was made upon the brain. It is also evident, from the same author, that the earlier symptoms were considered as arising from water al- ready deposited in the ventricles of the brain, whence the disease uniformly ac- quired its emphatic appellation: for I am disposed. to believe it an entire assumption, that the symptoms described in page 27 arise from the deposition of water in the ventricles, ‘They are caused by the com- mencing vascular excitement of the brain; previous to the effusion. The error arose from misunderstanding the causes of the