On the diagnosis and treatment of apoplexy / by Thomas Stretch Dowse.

  • Dowse, Thomas Stretch.
Date:
1881
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Credit: On the diagnosis and treatment of apoplexy / by Thomas Stretch Dowse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    so that of necessity, if the patient is to recover, the clot must be followed by numerous changes, and so also must the brain substance in contiguity with the clot. Under any circumstances the brain substance which is contiguous to the clot must undergo slight inflammatory and sclerosal change, forming a cyst wall; or, on the other hand, it pro- duces general softening of all the adjacent parts, and I need scarcely say that the treatment of these cases must be directed to prevent this process of softening from ex- tending, so that our great object must be to equalise blood- pressure, to maintain the nutrition of the parts, to improve in every way the condition of the blood, and to secure mental and physical rest. London : T. Danks, Steam Printer. 16 Great Windmill Street, W„