Counteraction, viewed as a means of cure : with remarks on the uses of the issue / by John Epps.

  • John Epps
Date:
1832
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Credit: Counteraction, viewed as a means of cure : with remarks on the uses of the issue / by John Epps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had continued many years. A few years since, Dunn's essence of coffee came into general use; to this Mr. W. was particularly partial, so much so, that whenever any friend called upon him, he almost invariably had a cup of coffee ; Mr. W. finding great pleasure not only in the rapidity with which the coffee was made by means of the essence, but also in the refreshment it afforded. The discharge of the ears, however, gradually ceased, and at length, when the discharge altogether ceased, Mr. W. became deranged. How often is insanity developed at the cessation of menstruation I This process having ceased, the action and the flow of blood consequent thereon take place elsewhere. The brain, being predisposed to disease, becomes the part that suffers; and insanity is the result of the diseased action thus induced by the cessation of what was its counteraction, namely, menstruation. Hippocrates, in his sixty-fifth aphorism, section five, has the following observations:- They in whom tu- mours and ulcers do appear, are neither taken with con- vulsions nor driven into rage or madness. On the sudden disappearance of these, from any cause, Hippo- crates notices that, if they existed « on the back part of the body, convulsions and (what he calls) distensions of the nerves (spasms) are caused; but, if on the fore part, raging madness, or a sharp pain in the sides, or a suppu- ration of the humours, or a dysentery, if the eruption were red. Every practitioner in midwifery is aware of the
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