A treatise on hydrencephalus, or dropsy of the brain / by James Carmichael-Smyth.

  • Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A treatise on hydrencephalus, or dropsy of the brain / by James Carmichael-Smyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be alleged to be the consequence of the asperity or roughness of their surface, although this is not always the case; but gall concretions, how- ever unequal in size or form, have constantly a smooth surface; and yet the pain occasioned by these, is not less violent than the pain from renal calculi. To the preceding examples may be added, the symptoms of irritation produced by the disten- tion of the alveolar process, from the growth and protrusion of the infant teeth, even when unaccompanied by pain : and the irritation often excited from the distention of the uterus, &c. in the first months of pregnancy. But if disten- tion alone, can give rise to symptons of irrita- tion, in all other membranous parts of the body, we are fairly warranted to conclude, that it will have similar effects on the sensible and irritable membranes lining the ventricles of the brain. To all these facts and inductions, it has been objected, that water, in some few cases, especially in lunatics, has been discovered after death, in the ventricles of the brain.