On obscure diseases of the brain and disorders of the mind / by Forbes Winslow.

  • Winslow, Forbes, 1810-1874.
Date:
[1861]
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Credit: On obscure diseases of the brain and disorders of the mind / by Forbes Winslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing, Oh, my head! Immediately afterwards he falls on the floor in a state of apoplectic insensibility. A literary man, whilst speaking at a public meeting, is suddenly seized with an uneasy sensation in his head. He says it feels as if it would burst, as if the brain was too big for the skull. He returns home, becomes apoplectic, and dies on the evening of that day. A clergyman, whilst preaching, is observed to stop, and put his hand to his head. He then attempts to proceed with his sermon, but articulates indistinctly, and has evidently lost his recollection. He keeps him- self from falling by grasping the side of the pulpit. He is immediately removed from the church, and is found cold, pale, speechless, and paralytic. He dies in a few days after the attack.* A young lad who had not previously complained of ill health, or of any uneasy head symptoms, suddenly awakes from an apparent state of profound slumber, and begins screaming, Oh, my head ! my head ! my head! Before his parents could be summoned into the room, he becomes insensible, and dies without being restored to a state of consciousness !f A lady, apparently in excellent health, is riding with her brother in Rotten Row. Whilst engaged in ani- mated and cheerful conversation, she suddenly com- plains of giddiness and sickness, and becomes deadly pale. A few minutes afterwards it is found that she * After death there was found in this case extensive extravasation of blood in the left ventricle, which had passed partly into the right, by laceration of the septum. ALL the arteries of the brain were extensively ossijicd.— Abercrombie. t All the ventricles were completely filled with coagulated blood. In the substance of the left hemisphere, there was a cavity formed by lacera- tion of the cerebral substance, filled also by tbe eoagulum, and commu- nicating with tbe ventricle. There was no other morbid appearance,— Abercrombie.