Case of abscess in the brain / by Alexander Denmark, M.D. ... ; communicated by Christopher Stanger, M.D.

  • Denmark, Alexander.
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Read November 9, 1813
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Credit: Case of abscess in the brain / by Alexander Denmark, M.D. ... ; communicated by Christopher Stanger, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be occasioned by a carious state of the diploe, which was somewhat black and much thickened. The operation was succeeded by a partial removal of the paralytic affection, and an alleviation of every bad symptom; in which state of amend¬ ment he continued until the 25th, when he was again attacked with fever, with full and strong pulse.—Had a bolus of jalap and calomel. 27th. A restless night with occasional delirium \ acute pain extending along the whole course of the spine, from the occiput to the sacrum ; a thin pu¬ rulent discharge, with a very unhealthy appear¬ ance of the dura mater. 28th. Restless, with white tongue, hot skin^ delirium, and torpid state of the bowels. Com¬ plains much of the pain in his back, espe¬ cially on every attempt to move himself from the horizontal to the erect posture, when the pain is so acute as to make him scream out most vio¬ lently, : he describes it as darting from the sacrum to the back of the head. The bolus was repeated, 29th. More sensible, but restless; cannot bear the smallest elevation of the trunk. An opiate was given at bed-time, and on the following day the purgative bolus was repeated. 31st. Features shrunk ; countenance lurid; lips purplish \ eyes half closed and glossy; pulse small 7 j