Observations, etc. on the epidemic disease, which lately prevailed at Gibraltar: intended to illustrate the nature of contagious fevers in general. [Part 1] / by Seguin Henry Jackson.

  • Jackson, Seguin Henry, 1752-1816.
Date:
1806
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    other functions necessary for the support of the nervous ex¬ citement. The first of these Dr. Cullen considered as direct causes, the second as indirect causes, of death. 26. Dr. Cullen concluded this brief explanation of his opinion respecting life and health, by observing “ that death was not always the immediate consequence of a cessation of the circulation,” for that a frog would live an hour or two after its heart was cut out: but that in time, from the cessa¬ tion of the circulation, it would have destroyed the animal: only it would not then have been considered as the direct cause of death. Whereas, if the brain was bruised, or much shook, -or the circulation through it in any way obstructed, or deranged, immediate death might probably be the consequence* Therefore the direct causes must act thereon, to produce a speedy dissolution. He enumerated, as among the principal direct causes, cold ; the sedative passions, such as fear, &c. convulsions, such as the epileptic, &c. and sometimes the excess of joy; and electricity. Each of these have proved fatal by the sudden and great excess of excitement, caused by them, being immediately followed by an excess of collapse; all which, when they do not immediately, or very quickly, destroy, may be the cause of subsequent fever. Notwith- i standing all this, Dr. Cullen did not consider compression of the brain, as the cause of death in febrile pestilential dis - orders. 27* I ought not to omit in this place to briefly mention the fundamental principle of the Brunonian doctrine, with a few remarks on it, leaving my reader to apportion the weight and