A collection of cases of apoplexy; with an explanatory introduction / [Edward Copeman].

  • Copeman, Edward, 1809-1880
Date:
1845
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Credit: A collection of cases of apoplexy; with an explanatory introduction / [Edward Copeman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    relief to breathing: half an hour after became comatose, in which state he has continued since. Respiration very labour- ing, with frothy mucus passing from the mouth; alternate in- flation and contraction of cheeks. No stool. Some croton oil was given about an hour and a half ago. Pulse 120, weak and soft. Muscles of all the extremities seem relaxed ; left eyelid droops; some languid motion of eyeballs. Enema purigans. Abradant. capille et tegat. totum caput vesiatorio. Cruribus applic. sinapismi. 14th.—One large stool from enema. Symptoms continued without change through the day. Died at ten o'clock. Sect. Cadav.—Head, veins and sinuses turgid. No serous or sanguineous effusion under the membranes; substance of the brain of a fleshy colour, and presented numerous red points on the cut surfaces. Very slight serous effusion into the lateral ventricles, and the plexus choroides more turgid than natural. Coats of basilar thickened ; within the vessel a considerable coagulum ; at one part the calibre of the vessel was plugged up by a deposit of coagulable lymph. Lungs and heart healthy. The descending aorta, about an inch from the arch, presented an unusual specimen of disease ; on the inner surface there were numerous white elevations, soft to the touch, smooth; some of these were abraded on the surface, and others, which were also of a greater size, seemed to have ulcerated, and to have poured forth blood, which gave a dark colour to the diseased growths; some of these were as large as a finger nail.—Medical Gazette, vol. vii. p. 319. 13. A woman, who was admitted for an old cutaneous dis- order, had some slight pectoral symptoms; suddenly there appeared symptoms of great oppression of the nervous system, and within sixty hours she died comatose, having been pre- viously blind for twelve hours. On dissection, little or no disease could be detected in the head; condensation of the lungs was the only remarkable morbid appearance.—Medical Gazette, vol. vil. p. 320. |