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

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
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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    The difference between Apoplexy and Epilepsy is the difference between trachelismus and laryngismus, jugular and vertebral vein, cerebrum and medulla oblongata. Heberden observes— Paralysis et apoplexia sunt tantum di- versi gradus ejusdem morbi*. This is true in a certain limited sense, especially in the paroxysmal forms of these diseases. But, in the same sense, not only apoplexy and paralysis, but these and epilepsy, and mania, are one and the same disease, differing in degree. But whilst apoplexy affects the cerebrum, and paralysis a hemisphere,—epilepsy affects the medulla oblongata, and mania again the cerebrum. 1. Apoplexy, 2. Paralysis, 3. Epilepsy, 4. Convulsion, 5. Mania,—may each be arranged into—■ Class I, 1. Of Inorganic Origin; 2. Of Recurrent Paroxysmal Form ; 3. Of short Duration, terminating in perfect recovery, or Fatal, 4. Without post-mortem appearances, or 5. With such as are Ejects only. Class II. 1. 0/ Organic Origin; 2, Of Permanent Form. Of the whole doctrine of Trachelismus, there is not the shadow or the possibility of a doubt, as far as Inorganic Epilepsy is con- cerned. But the paroxysm or paroxysms of inorganic epilepsy lead • Op. cit p. 285.