Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / by John Abercrombie.
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- 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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![tbe CORD, IT.'J '1117 of tie I ®^“!>raD8,orKeni,i. ^ '''%oftiefor(]jteTij|j3||j, ™ 'lio 'rinal «nal t ;n tie jjmal omlj oi : and tikkeninj of the mem- ite wi of the wri hr new fomitw h||)eiiJ«. alhaititnons depotiiionS) tii-'H of the memhinnes. „f jportinnotthewd ilhffaalwrJ. v'l. ■ co»»' usually discharged at all times a little matter, hut the attacks of pain were followed by more copious dis- charges ;—the pain on these occasions extending over the left side of his head, and often continuing for a i c' L™- , iiit 1 . Jjtei'*' In ■'0**' aOf » •i-ein .,:e. i'<'n . f’f U Icll ^ I,(Cl®' ' ,fih‘ v.eek avith much severity. In the first week of April, 1817, he was confined from his usual employments by headach, avhich affected both the forehead and the occi- put ; he lay in bed only part of the day; his appetite avas bad, and his sleep disturbed; but there avas little or no frequency of pulse, and for a aveek the complaint excited little attention. About the end of the aveek, he complained of pain extending along the neck, and in the beginning of the second aveek the pain in the head nearly ceased, but the pain in the neck became more severe, and extended farther doavnaamds along the spine. It continued for several days to extend farther and far- ther doavn, until at last it fixed with intense severity at the lower part of the spine, and extended from thence round the body, toavards the spinous processes of the ilia. From this time he never complained of his head, and seldom of the upper parts of the spine ; but he be- came affected avith great uneasiness over the avhole abdomen, and great pain and difficulty in passing his urine. From the violence of these complaints, his suf- ferings about the 15th became extreme; he could not lie in bed for five minutes at a time, but aa'as generally walking about the house in a state of extreme agitation, grasping the lower part of his back avith both his hands, and gnashing his teeth from the intensity of pain ; he had no interval of ease, and avas sometimes incoherent and unmanageable. On the 16th he avent to the warm bath, walking doavn three stairs, and into an adjoining street, avith little assistance. After his return from the bath he thought himself som.eavhat relieved, but the pain soon returned avith its former severity, accompanied by great pain in the belly, severe dysuria, confusion of thought, and some difficulty of articulation. The pulse aaas about 100, and the boavels avere easily kept open by the ordinary medicines. On the 17th, the symptoms](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0353.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
