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.
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![oO ternates only with a repetition of the convulsion, until in a few clays the case is fatal. In other cases, there is recovery from the first convulsion, and the patient ap- pears to be doing \\ell for some time, perhaps for seve- ral days, but afterwards falls into coma, either -with or Avithout a recurrence of the convulsion. In other cases again, the convulsion does not come on till an advanced period of the disease. The following seh ction of cases cvill illustrate the principal phenomena connected with this important af- fection, both in children and in adults To ])revent cir- cumlocution, I shall employ the term Mcnbigiiis to ex- press the disease, meaning thereby the inflammation of the arachnoid, or pia mater, or both, as distinct from inflammation of the dura mater. § I.—Simple meningitis in tue most common FORM. Case VIII.—A boy aged II, had been for about a fortnight remarkably listless and inactive, and aftected Avith frecjuent vomiting. The vomiting had occurred every day, or several times in the day; his boAvels Avere costive, but he did not complain of any pain, and he Avas free from fever. In the evening of the 29th June, 1910, he AA'as seized Avith violent coiiA-ulsion, AA'liich re- curred several times ; in the inten-als he had severe vomiting, and complained of hcadach ; pulse 60. The convulsion occurred frequently during the folloAving night, and in the intciwals he complained that he could not see. ToAvurds morning, the convulsion ceased, and left him in a state of the most profound coma. The coma continued till mid-day of the 30th, Avhen it began to abate after he had been freely purged ; in the even- ing he Avas quite sensible, and complained of hcadach ; pulse 120. Jiihj l.vf—The ordinary remedies having been adopt- ed, he Avas much relieved ; no hcadach ; no vomiting; tongue moist : pulse 120. silf-'-'' . ■ Ji-Puls 103; functions na 'k-PiilEe‘;0; W an attac BDipW niucli of liis licad; a tee of slapoi; ra sensiUe h k«t of king fetatkJ, an bsWi eysBaaiial; lepted Oi!i.-Perfect coma, inli (lem f™ 12(1 to ISO; hefcj'dcntly prcaa? Ills forehead, aad tlieot profound coma (he tri IJere.' lelwi; le s 43 V *• ■ - .■ >1, (. 'f'A? t e'as ■•I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
