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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    plegia take place in the highest degree, and yet ra- pidly disappear, &c. * 30. These then are the important subjects of the present Lectures: 1. The paroxysmal form of certain apoplectic and paralytic, as well as epileptic, seizures; 2. The various degrees of lividity and tumidity of the integuments of the face and neck in these ; 3. The frequent speedy and entire recovery from them; or the absence of morbid appearances in the cases which prove fatal. 31. I shall have further to advert to the cerebral form of some cases of epilepsy, to the syncopal form of other seizures, and to the possibility of such attacks being hidden, and their effects mysterious. 32. It is obvious that, after much consideration given to the subject, Abercrombie felt the want of some principle cn which to explain the occurrence of attacks of what he designates simple apoplexy. He asks, at the close of his interesting chapter entitled Conjectures in rega^'d to the Circulation in the Brain,'' Why is not apoplexy produced by every increase in the mass of the blood, and why is it not excited by every instance of intemperance, violent exercise, or strong mental emotion 1 Is there any provision by which the effects of these causes are averted in their daily occurrence, though, in a certain condition of the ♦ Oj,) cit. PI). 247 ; 219.