A treatise on nervous diseases : In two volumes / by John Cooke.

  • John Cooke
Date:
1820
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Credit: A treatise on nervous diseases : In two volumes / by John Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mulatecl fluid to between two and three times its natural size. This, he says, was thought a favourable case for the experi- ment of gradually discharging the water from the head by puncture. The operation was accordingly performed the next day by means of a couching needle of the size and shape formerly in use. Three ounces and five drachms of limpid fluid were dis- charged, and the opening was closed with adhesive planter, a roller being at the same time applied roimd the head. After the discharge of this small quantity of water, the head lost its tension and globular form, and became so flaccid as to allow the water to gravitate backwards while the child was laid upon its mother's knee, giving to the loose integuments the form of a pendulous bag. The water, however, again accu- mulated, and the head became as tense as before, in a very few days. The operation was repeated, when five ounces of fluid were evacuated; and again in about eight weeks, when eight ounces of fluid were discharged. In ten days afterwards, the head was punctured for the last time, when twelve ounces of fluid were drawn in a con-
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