Volume 1

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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    the head becomes affected, a very consi¬ derable derangement takes place in the digestive functions. I have seen the stools often of a dark mahogany colour in such cases; and in a recent case, in which the palsy had lasted four years, a complete jaundice with much tenderness over the liver supervened, not attributable to any impropriety of proceeding on the part of the patient, and who had also been under judicious management: although the cure of the jaundice in this instance, and the restoration of the healthy appear¬ ance of the evacuations in the others, rendered the patients much more com¬ fortable and tranquillized mgs,-—no impression was j paralytic state. It is difficult to say, in i cases like these, where the disease origi- Inally commenced; they form instances of masked disease; but I have known ano¬ malous paralytic and numbning sensa-