History and method of cure of the various species of epilepsy : being the second part of the second volume of a treatise on nervous diseases / by John Cooke.

John Cooke

Date:: 1823

Credit: History and method of cure of the various species of epilepsy : being the second part of the second volume of a treatise on nervous diseases / by John Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$bilious, and apt to be angry without cause. Two or three days before the accession of the fit, he observes, persons sometimes ex- perience perturbation of mind, pain and swimming in the head, and weakness of stomach. * A celebrated physician remarks, that, in some cases, a few hours before the paroxysm, a slight alienation of mind is observable ; that persons are sometimes affected with a sort of vapour of the smell and flavour of musk f; with pain in the bowels ; looseness ; vomiting; pain in the head; obscurity of sight; impeded or sup- pressed speech ; difficulty of breathing, and coldness of the extremities. These circumstances and symptoms warn us of the approach of an epileptic fit; but * Hv 5e 7rA>](7iov eidsfy' v\ too 7coLpo^va‘^5r> xvxXop y,a.ppuxpvya.\ %po tijg 04/1& 7rop<pvpewv rj psXuvcuv irj navTCiov opov crvpipiE^iy^i- VMV, (Jog SoXESlV TYjV SV Ol/poCVOO TSTXv6(T§Cll IpiV’ fool WTWV fiapijodfAiYl' opyiXoi Tvixpo^oXoi 'irupxXbywg. Aret. de Cans, et Sign. Morb. Acut. lib. i. c. 5. f Gustu et odore moschi. Heberden. — In a par- ticular instance, mentioned to me by a medical friend, (Mr. Hutchinson,) the approach of epilepsy, which ge- nerally came on immediately before the menstrual evacu- ation, was marked by the appearance of a singular blue colpur of the gums.$