Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee.

  • Samuel Gee
Date:
1902
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Credit: Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    renew his youth ; he was full of life, ate largely, di-ank largely. One morning, after a very good dinner the evening before, he was awakened early by a bad pain in his head : the pain in- creased ; he vomited several times. He sent for a doctor and told him that it was a bilious attack of the kind to which he was subject. Unluckily the doctor believed him, and with the purpose of relieving the pain in the head, which had now become violent, he gave a dose of nitro-. glycerine—a dangerous remedy under the circum- stances. In less than an hour after the doctor had left the house, he was hastily called back, and found his patient deeply comatose, dying indeed, for he lived only eight hours after the beginning of the headache. No examination of the dead body was made, but we know what would have been found : the brain substance torn up by blood, the cerebral ventricles full of blood, the heart hypertrophied, and the kidneys granular. He was nearly sixty years of age.
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