Volume 2
Elements of the theory and practice of physic, designed for the use of students / By George Gregory.
- George Gregory
- Date:
- 1829
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Elements of the theory and practice of physic, designed for the use of students / By George Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![or wire) s—giddiness, particularly on: aio or any attempt t to turn the head quickly round Oe aa of the temporal arteries. To the second class belong transient deafness, ringing in the ears, epistaxis, obscurity or irreguiarity of vision, transient blindness. To the third, stupor, drowsiness, . incoherent talkin ;, a State re- stammering. ape ee wma al ae The premonitory indications of apoplexy are very tumeérdns, as ‘étated by ae. author; but the shades between these precursors and the paroxysm perfectly — powers of sense and voluntary motion, and in all such: cases a strict scrutiny into’ the state of the circulation will indicate the necessity of immediate blood-] tting. In this forming state we can do more by drawing twenty ounces of “blood, than. we can afterwards by three times that quantity, P. ves Flashes of bright and shining light; appearances like flies before the sight; fre- uent fits of nightmare; bleeding at the nose; painful throbbing on one or both a heavy or watery eye; noises like the roaring of the seas diminishe inspiration deeper than usual; anxiety; _Testlessness; sleepiness; sno indistinct articulation; using one word for another; cramps in different T oft body; timidity; irresolution, are also genet the pr evious symptoms.* Uns common torpor and stupidity; a a great sense of cold or heat; disturbed sleep; a burnin pain at the stomach; gnashing of the’ teeth. in sleep, are atsOneTig ey its symp Pp tomst C. 3 ‘ oo ; ds vit 1. 3 After experiencing, for a longer or shorter rave one or more of these warnings, the patient falls into the apoplectic fits and Dr. Abercrombie has well described the several ways in- “which this takes placet % ' f r ee VARIETIES IN TILE APOPLECTIC SEIZURE. 1. In the most usual form of apoplectic seizure, the patient falls down suddenly, deprived of sense and motion, and lies like a per- son in a deep sleep. He neither hears, nor sees, nor feels. Un- conscious of every thing around him, he is alike insensible to the exertions of bis medical attendants, and the anxieties of his friends. The suddenness of the attack is that feature of the disorder which most immediately impresses itself upon the notice of observers ; and being so very general, the disease has from this A in all ages received its name. 2. The second form of apoplectic seizure commences by a sud- den attack of violent pain of the head, accompanied with paleness of the face, sickness at stomach, vomiting , and transient loss of ® , ” Tank Gace bd ! a4 r, Pa + i * Cheyne, p. 8, et seq. hae Tt Cooke, v. i. p. 157, 8. 1820. * + Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journ yol. xiv. p. 554,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3328975x_0002_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
