A treatise on hydrocephalus, or, Water in the brain with the most successful modes of treatment / William Griffith.

  • Griffith, William.
Date:
1835
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    I have remarked that the symptoms are cha- racterised by little intensity. In very young in- fants, even when the effusion is considerable, and the head much enlarged, the disease sometimes causes very little derangement in the general health; the muscles are often firm and sufficiently developed, and the infant takes the breast with appetite. But what is stiU more singular is, that even when the effusion is prodigious in quantity, pro- vided it has taken place very slowly and gra- dually, the powers of the intellect at times remain undisturbed. Michaelis* relates two curious cases of chronic hydrocephalus, one of which continued for twenty-four, the other twenty-nine years, and yet the intellect was not affected; the memoiy was sound, the pupil natural, and the appetite good. These, nevertheless, must be re- garded as rare instances. The quantity of fluid which sometimes collects within the head is almost incredible. A case is * Med. Commun., vol. i. p. 23.