On the nature, pathology and treatment of puerperal convulsions / by Richard Hodges.

  • Hodges, Richard, 1820-1895.
Date:
1864
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Credit: On the nature, pathology and treatment of puerperal convulsions / by Richard Hodges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ] 5 variable time passes away before complete conscious- ness is restored; in six or seven hours, frequently, there will be a degree of consciousness, sufficient per- haps to enable the patient to recognise those about her; but more often it has happened that there is complete insensibility for twenty-four, or thirty or forty hours, and in one instance a week passed before any approach to a state of consciousness appeared; but in every instance the period of time intervening between the accession of the disease and restoration to a state of sensibility remained a perfect blank, and not only so, but in some instances I found that the patient could not recall to her memory any events occurring for twelve or eighteen hours prior to the manifestation of the first phenomena of the disease; and in one case the patient could not remember anything which took place for a period of thirty-six hours before convulsions appeared, although during that time she was apparently in her usual spirits, conversing with her friends, and walking about with her husband, and as cognisant as ever of what was going on around her; yet, notwith- standing this, she could not remember anything which happened during the thirty-six hours which preceded the first convulsive seizure : this period, like that occu- pied by the developed disease, being a perfect blank to her, and still remains so, although a year and upwards has passed away. The memory for some hours after restoration to consciousness is frequently absent, and only returns very gradually; one event after another of the previous life being recalled to the mind.