Volume 2

A statement of the early symptoms which lead to the disease termed water in the brain. With observations on the necessity of a watchful attention to them, and on the fatal consequences of their neglect in a letter to Martin Wall, Esq. M.D / By G.D. Yeats.

  • Yeats, G. D. (Grant David), 1773-1836.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A statement of the early symptoms which lead to the disease termed water in the brain. With observations on the necessity of a watchful attention to them, and on the fatal consequences of their neglect in a letter to Martin Wall, Esq. M.D / By G.D. Yeats. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For want of timely aid. Millions have died of medicable wounds. But, however great the advantages may be, which are felt from an attention to the early signs of approaching disease, they are of much greater importance and the necessity of such watchful attention is more indispensable, Sir, in a curative point of view, on the subject of the pre¬ sent letter; in as much as, with all other diseases, in which our art is at all avail¬ able, a cure may be effected in almost any of the subsequent stages. With the first train of symptoms which form the ground work of the future disease of Water in the Brain, our practice must commence; otherwise, we shall very often visit our patient only to lament the inefii- cacy of our prescriptions, and to watch the inevitable progress to death. There is no doubt. Sir, and your experience will also confirm the fact, that there is