Hydrocephalus re-considered and its relations to inflammation and irritation of the brain defined : with cases from hospital and private practice in exemplification of its pathology, prevention, and successful treatment / by Thomas Weeden Cooke.

Date:
1850
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Credit: Hydrocephalus re-considered and its relations to inflammation and irritation of the brain defined : with cases from hospital and private practice in exemplification of its pathology, prevention, and successful treatment / by Thomas Weeden Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had been acted upon and the system relieved of much green bihous matter, and the child had had some quiet sleep. Much neglect however was, I am sorry to say, exhibited towards this poor motherless child, with respect to the applications of ice, as well as in the administration of the medicines, to which I attribute the very unfa- vorable appearances which presented themselves upon my visit on the 10th. Squinting, with the film over the surface of the eye and a fixed dila- ted pupil, indicated serous effusion; a convulsive action of the mouth was also perceptible, and the poor child lay upon its back moaning piteously— the mouth and tongue were parched and the skin hot and dry. I ordered the surface of the body to be well sponged with warm vinegar and water, the head still to be kept cold, and an ice cream to be administered frequently with an occasional tea-spoonful of Lisbon wine. The convulsions however increased, and on the morning of the 11th, the poor Httle thing died. Having been permitted to make a post-mortem examination, I found great vascularity of the membranes and substance of the Brain, and in the central parts some slight amount of ramohssement had com- menced. The ventricles and the base of the