Letters concerning the internal dropsy of the brain, to Charles William Quin / [William Patterson].

  • Patterson, William
Date:
1794
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Credit: Letters concerning the internal dropsy of the brain, to Charles William Quin / [William Patterson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    accurate obferver, I mentioned thefe opinions, and the futcefs of the pradice refulting from them^ to Dr. Quin, now phyfician at Dublin. That gentle¬ man had lately taken his degree, and had chofen Hydrocephalus for the fubjed of his Thefis, in the year, 1779. In this very ingenious elTay, which he gave me next morning, I was much pleafed to find that the author had not only held the fame ideas relative to the nature of the difeafe, but had alfo confirmed them by difledion.’^ Such diligent inquirers, or indeed the drowfiefl reader, could not turn over Morgagni de Caufis et Sedibus Morborum^ efpecially his letters on the difeafes of the head, without conceiving a theory of this kind. To fupport this opinion, I fhall beg leave to call your attention to one or two cafes, in addi¬ tion to thofe you have tranfcribed from the fame author. Analogous to your 6th cafe, in the fame epiftle, and 12th paragraph, he gives us one of a young woman, who, after being extremely heated by a journey in winter, was feized with a violent pain in the head, and an acute fever. Although under the influence of the fexual revolution, her pulfe was ftrong and firm. She had no delirium; but was often refervedly filent; and with thefe fymptoms Ihe died in a'few days. On openings the head, the infide of the cranium had a reddifh brown caft, and the outfide of the pia mater, where it covered the upper part of the brain, was fmeared with a yel-
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