Notes on the epidemic cholera / by R. Hartley Kennedy.

Date:
1846
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    seen patients die of epilepsy, or apoplexy, or bio ws or falls, where the most accurate investigation could discover no diseased structure or organic lesions ot the brain,* the practitioner may be satisfied when he sees the symptoms of cerebral disorder, without de- manding absolute demonstration in former practice, of diseased structure, following a paroxysm of too rapid progress for any important organic change to have taken place; and I think he will find them satisfactorily detailed in the extracts I make from the letter alluded to. The opinion of the Bombay Medical Board is deli- vered in very expressive terms, and is exceedingly worthy of imitation by professional writers. There is such a mania for philosophical jargon now abroad in the world, that it is at times no easy matter to translate the phraseology and discover the plain English of your modern philosophy. Near the conclusion of their interesting summary, the Board observe :— Concealed from our view as the exciting or proximate cause of this formidable disease may ever remain, we have only to observe its effects; and the united testimony of all who have witnessed it seems to show there is a someiohat which presses heavily and suddenly upon the vital functions, and on many occasions resembles the effect of a poison taken into the stomach, or applied to the blood ; but whether it * Pott's Surgical AVorks, vol. i. p. 2G6. Bell's Surgery, vol. iii, p. 325.
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