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.
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![less. In the beginning of the second week, a swelling ajipeared in the left upper eyelid ; her look was now more oppressed, the pulse varying from 96 to 120; tlie pain varying as before, sometimes a good deal com- plained of and sometimes quite gone ; and one day she complained of acute pain in the right ear. On the 27th, she began to have severe shiverings, followed by heat and perspiration, for which an eminent physician ordered her the bark in large doses. For two days after this she seemed much better, the pulse from 90 to 96, and every symptom greatly relieved. The swell- ing on the left eyelid was punctured, and discharged a good deal of purulent matter ; and a probe introduced by the opening passed to a great depth along the upper part of the orbit, where the bone in some places felt bare. On the evening of the 29th, she was seized with slight convulsion, but it soon subsided, and after it she seemed quite as well as on the two preceding days, all the previous symptoms being very much relieved. On the 30th, there was more complaint of headach, with an oppressed look, and the pulse varied exceedingly, being sometimes very rapid, and at other times a little above the natural standard. On the 31st, there was no particular change ; she was quite intelligent, and all her senses were entire. When she was last visited about nine o’clock at night, she complained of some uneasiness across the crown of the he.ad, but no other change was remarked in the symptoms. Between one and two in the morning, she was observed to be slightly incoherent, and soon after sunk into a state of lowness ; did not speak, but seemed quite sensible, and died at three. Very slight delirium had been observed on a preceding night, about the 28th, and once she had com- plained of dimness of sight, but none of these symptoms had been again taken notice of. Inspection. On raising the skull-cap a good deal of purulent matter escaped, which had been collected be- twixt the bone and the dura mater. The space in which it had been contained was defined by an irregu- lar elevated margin of adventitious membrane, by adhfrt^ nas larioftlierigl'' itijarlaceivasiD some pl^fs lick, ki lie menibne was i]Uiteo rasiod. Od raisiiif! tie dura mi kcofdiisf«ttiotttaii tie same ine| f araaceasite outer surface, andwi I’acei rijk . me meaiuraDe at me p eicoffiderablytiickcaei .111 uTOiitie oi m 1)1 wlieiisiajlhexjojfjp, ’ lie lead, was coterc’ uiui jiimiient lua ^^■^^'fMtieanierioi as Ms . j '](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
