Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / by John Abercrombie.
- Date:
- 1845
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Credit: Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / by John Abercrombie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![DISEASES OF THE BRAIN, &c. TAUT I. OF THE INFLAMMATORY AFFECTIONS OF THE BRAIN. Pi'XDLiAU difficulties attend the investigation of inllam- matory affections of the Ijrain. In the inflammatory diseases of other organs, rve are generally alrle to trace the proper symptoms of the inflammation through the ■whole course of the disease, and to make allowance tor any incidental combinations l)y which they may he mo- dified ; hut from the rapid effects which all acute dis- eases of the brain produce upon the sensorial functions, the patient generally becomes, at an early period, un- able to express his feelings, and the proper symptoms of the disease arc lost amid that suspension of all the faculties to which we give the name of oppression of the brain. AVhenever this remarkable condition occurs, it natu- rally becomes the prominent object of attention ; and, as it has been by long-established usage strongly asso- ciated with the idea of pressure u[)on the brain, the in- vestigation has generally been directed to the discovery of a compressing cause. Efl’usod fluid liaving been iound upon examination after death, in a great ] ro-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
