On paralysis from brain disease in its common forms.

  • Bastian, H. Charlton.
Date:
1875
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Credit: On paralysis from brain disease in its common forms. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to look especially to the general health and mode of life of those younger patients who may be suffering from endocarditis, in order that by good food, duly moderated exercise, and freedom from sudden excitements, you may diminish as much as possible the chance of the occurrence of cerebral embolism. Again, should there be signs of some cerebral complication in a young or middle-aged person during the period of recovery from one of the acute diseases, you must recollect that commencing throm- bosis is most likely to be the occasioning cause—a thrombosis, too, which may be almost if not quite independent of degeneration in the vessels, but which is essentially determined by an abnormal condition and influence of the tissues outside acting upon slightly altered and more slowly moving blood within. White blood-corpuscles are more prone to lag and adhere to the walls of the vessels where certain states of the tissues exist, and fibrine may be also more prone to separate when particular alter- ations in the blood are present. A stoppage thus produced in a minute vessel, under the influence of favouring conditions may more or less rapidly spread to larger trunks; whilst, on the other hand, the commencing process of occlusion may be re- solved and the tendency itself cut short under the