Dissertatio medica inauguralis de chorea : ... pro gradu doctoris ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Ioannes Thomson.

  • John Thomson
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1807
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    sententiam minus ineptam reddendam, quod se- quitur citare liceat: In one case, (Hydro- ceph. Intern. Acut.), there was paralysis of the right side ; in two others, the irregular motions of the Hmbs termed Sc Vitus*s Dance took place, at the second alteration of the pulse, and continued till within a day or two of the patient's death *. A Wright, medico Bristoliensi, enarratur exemplum cujus- dam, qui haud multo post choream, ut visum est, zinco fugatam, hydrocephalo mortuus est. His subjungam pauca, sed omnia, quae de sec- tione cadaverum inveni. In two cases (of chorea) examined after death, from two to four ounces of clear lymph were found in the ventricles of the brain, and about the same quantity within the pericardium f. Hos duos morbos cibi appetentia imminuta vel prava, languor, debilitas, vultus demissus, musculorum * WiLLAN. Diseases of London, p. 269. 12mo. t Ibid. p. 245. In uno exemplo D. Clise, chirurgus Londini exi- mlus, quasdam ossis particulas in cerebri pia matre forma- tas, invcnit—CtiNE^sLect. on Surgery, MS.
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