Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson.

  • Wilson, Andrew, in Path-head.
Date:
1765
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Credit: Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    feafon of the year : I fliall only prc- lume to recommend it to further ob- fervation whether both thefe and para¬ lytic diforders, particularly that fpecies of them called hemiplegias are fo or not. Such deaths are either inftantaneous without any previous warning or fick- nefs, or they are preceded by fome figns which denounce and threaten them. If the firfl kind are ever caufed by a dif- eafe of the head, they more properly cleferve the name of a palfy than that of an apoplexy : but from various ex¬ aminations and obfervations there is much more ground for afcribing them, either to a palfy, or to a rupture of the heart (fo that heart-burfting is by no means fuch an improper phrafe as the V vulgar ufe of it would make one fuf- pect) or to the fudden detachment of polypus’s or grumous blood from their adhefion to the large veflels about the heart. Where death is occafioned by the gradual increafe of fuch adhe- E 2 Hons