An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.

  • Charles Kite
Date:
1788
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Credit: An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pg 7] fions merely temporary, or at leaft of no material continuance. Now, allowing thefe circumftances to be true, and to the beft of my knowledge their reality has never been difproved, it follows, that at a time when the bulk of the brain is by any means increafed, fo as to be firmly compreffed by the fkull, a fmaller degree, either of extravafation or fulnefs of the vefiels, will produce exactly the fame ef- fects as a greater, when the brain is in a contrary ftate, or when it does not fo com- pletely fill the cavity of the fkull, but that it might allow of being fomewhat diftend- ed, without any confiderable compreffion enfuing. This, in my opinion, proves very fully and fatisfactorily, not only why the diftention of the veffels of the brain may occafion the fame effects as effufion, but why extravafation may produce only the lighter fymptoms of apoplexy in one, while an over-fulnefs of the veffels thall occafion death in another. As a corroboration of what has been faid, I may obferve, that feveral inftances of | {trongly
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