On the threatening of apoplexy and paralysis : inorganic epilepsy; spinal syncope; hidden seizures; the resultant mania ... / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1851
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Credit: On the threatening of apoplexy and paralysis : inorganic epilepsy; spinal syncope; hidden seizures; the resultant mania ... / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    51. . But what is the rationale of this venous tur- gescence of the face and neck 1 How do emotion, gastric irritation, &c. act in inducing this singular effect 1 52. This—this is the deeply interesting question to which I beg your attention. It is the reply to this question which, I believe, presents the Ke^ to all the difficulties in regard to the nature,—source and origin, —of paroxismal apoplexy, paralysis, epilepsy, &c. And thus I am led to treat of the immediate and prin- cipal subject of these Lectures. 3.— On Trachelismus ; or Contraction of the Muscles of the Neck. 53. We are all familiar with the phrase—'choked with grief or with anger,' and we have all witnessed the blush of shame and the deep flush of anger ; and I have already stated that I have distinctly traced mere intense blushing into epilepsy, and that the still more intense flush of anger has passed into apoplexy. 54. With this blush of shame and this flush of anger, there are frequently, and in proportion to their degree, a purple lividity and tumidity of the face and neck, and even of the upper part of the thorax. 55. I have seen the same flush of the countenance, whilst the patient hsi^ felt a degree of stricture of the throat, with the fear of some seizure, as the effects of an indigestible meal.