Letters concerning the internal dropsy of the brain, to Charles William Quin / [William Patterson].
- Patterson, William
- Date:
- 1794
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Letters concerning the internal dropsy of the brain, to Charles William Quin / [William Patterson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
32/98 (page 28)
![[ 28- ] are not conftantly prefent in every cafe, muft be^ ] equally granted; becaufe it is certain, that the dif- * | temper has occurred, where thofe fymptoms have been wanting, even in its advanced ftage. ! The dilatation of the pupils, the fquinting, the fcreaming, have not appeared from beginning to end, yet the difeafe has been confidered an hydroce¬ phalus ; and, on opening the head, the veffels of the meninges have been found red with blood, the ventricles generally containing ferum, but fometimes entirely without it. Nay the very contrary of the leading pathognomonick fymptom, dilatation of the pupils, has been obferved to take place, as we find in a cafe, related by Mr. Hooper, in the firfl Volume of the Memoirs of the London Medical Society. In this inftance, the pupils were contra6led^ and re¬ mained unaltered by different degrees of light falling on the eyes; yet, the head being opened, half a pint of clear water was found in the ventricles of- the brain.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30794468_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
