Cases of spasmodic disease accompanying affections of the pericardium / by Richard Bright.

  • Bright Richard, 1789-1858.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Cases of spasmodic disease accompanying affections of the pericardium / by Richard Bright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF SPASMODIC DISEASE ACCOMPANTING AFFECTIONS OF THE PERICARDIUM. By RICHARD BRIGHT, M.D. F.R.S. PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY, PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE QUEEN, ETC. READ NOVEMBER 13TII, 1838. The cases to which I shall now take the liberty of calling the attention of the Society are, in some respects, sufficiently interesting. They are three in number, and have occurred to me in the course of practice within a short time; two of them within the present year, and the third somewhat earlier. They are cases which differ very essentially from each other; yet all unite in illustrating, in a striking manner, a particular point with regard to the symp- toms of disease, which cannot be indifferent either to the physician or the surgeon. The symptoms to which I refer are essentially spasmodic, and depend, as I conceive, on irritation communicated to the system from lesions within the chest. All the cases will be found to agree in the great extent to which certain portions of the nervous sys- tem were involved, the irritation of which might, in VOL. XXII. B