Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / By John Abercrombie.

  • Abercrombie, John, 1780-1844
Date:
1836
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Credit: Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / By John Abercrombie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the 27th, she complained of headach, which in- creased rapidly in violence ; towards the afternoon, she became delirious, the pulse very frequent, about 160. Soon after this she was seized with violent and general convulsion, which recurred very frequently through the early part of the night, leaving her in a state of profound coma. ‘The treatment adopted during the course of these symptoms was repeated general bleeding, to the amount of 28 ounces, followed by topical bleeding, pur- gatives, antimonial solution, &c. Towards midnight the convulsions ceased, and some time afterwards she gradually recovered from the coma. On the 28th, she was free from any alarming symptom during the early part of the day; pulse about 108. In the evening she was seized with severe symptoms of pneumonia, on ac- count of which she was bled during the next 24 hours to the amount of upwards of 30 ounces, besides bleed- ing with leeches and the other usual remedies. In a few days more she was restored to perfect health. Caszt LXXI.—A young man, aged 16, in the begin- ning of October, 1823, had cough with severe dyspneea, for which he was freely bled from the arm with much relief, and on the morning of the 10th, he was consider- ed as convalescent. In the evening of that day he had headach and some vomiting. About midnight, having got out of bed to go to stool, he fell down in a state of violent and general convulsion. The convulsion re- turned during the night six or seven times with such violence that one of the attacks continued without in- termission for about an hour. The pulse during the night varied from 60 to 120. At first it was found im- possible to bleed him on account of the violence of the convulsions, but about 7 in the morning a full bleeding was obtained, though with some difficulty, after which the convulsions ceased, except some slighter attacks during the day, which appeared to be arrested by pour- ing cold water over hishead. During the llth, he was oppressed, with occasional tremors of the limbs and some vomiting, and he had one or two threatenings of