Lectures on the nervous system and its diseases / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1836
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    pulse; and the moment the slightest indication of approach- ing syncope takes place, arrest the flow of blood and place your patient recumbent. 403. If early syncope occur, trust the future to local de- pletion by means of cupping to the occiput and the neck. If the patient lose a large quantity of blood without change, pursue and repeat the remedy boldly ; his life depends upon ample depletion of the sanguiferous system. Add, to the energetic use of the lancet, that of the cupping instrument. 404. The head should be covered with a spirit lotion. The feet should be fomented, involved in ample bran poul- tices and sinapisms alternately. 405. The bowels must be purged freely, daily. 406. The diet must be mere barley-water. 407. The countenance, the respiration, the pulse, must, however, be watched, and the least disposition to debility cautiously noticed and remedied,— even by stimulants, and especially by the carbonas ammonias. 408. The next questions relate to the treatment of the paralysis, should the patient survive, or escape, the attack of apoplexy. I must suppose all inflammatory action dissipated. In this case liniments and electricity may be tried, but es- pecially voluntary movements of the limb. Is strychnine ever of advantage ? 409. Should not we rather be still contemplating the condition of the brain, and using the remedies proper for this cerebral disease, the source of the paralysis ? Cupping, so as to induce irritation, rather than to withdraw blood, setons, issues, near the part affected,—that is, upon the he- misphere opposite to the paralysed side,—are our principal remedies, but especially the first of these. III.—TUBERCLES OF THE ENCEPHALON. 410. Besides the diseases which I have hitherto men- tioned, there are others which may occur in the encephalon. These are Tubercles and various kinds of Tumors.