Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / by John Abercrombie.

Date:
1845
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    iiiittecl to the profession a series of researches, on various important subjects, of a pathological and practical nature ; and he now intrudes upon their attention with farther observations, in a more con- nected and moi'e extended form. In doing so, he has no system to support, and no new doctrines to propose. He may indvdge in conjectures, hut these he will keep entirely distinct from the facts upon which they are founded. He assumes no higher character than that of a faithful relater oi facts, which a practice of considerable extent has brought under his view ; and he aspires to no high- er merit, than to contribute something towards enlarging our accpiaintance with the phenomena of disease. This volume is divided into four parts. The three first of these refer to diseases of the Brain, arranged under three clases, the Inflammatory, the Apoplectic, and the Organic. This arrange- ment will probably answer every pi’actical pur- pose ; for, though the affections of the inflamma- tory class generally terminate by an apoplectic state, or a state of coma, and the organic affections arc often distinguished by ajioplcctic paroxysms, yet, in a pathological point of view, the classes ap- pear to be sufficiently distinct, for the purpose of an arbitrary division of the subject. The fourth part rcfci’s to the diseases of the Spinal Cord, and its membranes ; and in an appendix to this part, a slight outline is given of the present state of our knowledge in regard to the pathology of Nerves.
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