An enquiry into the various theories and methods of cure in apoplexies and palsies / by B. Chandler, M.D.

  • Benjamin Chandler
Date:
1785
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Credit: An enquiry into the various theories and methods of cure in apoplexies and palsies / by B. Chandler, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Yet, viewing this fubject with a critical eye, I have been inclined to doubt whether fuch a divifion alone, juft as in many cafes it certainly is, will be found fufficient, in every ftate and variety of thefe difeafes, to anfwer all the pur- pofes of nice difcrimination $ wherefore it will be hereafter occafionally refumed. From arrangement we are regularly conducted to definition. 1094. Apoplexy is that difeafe in which the whole of the internal and external fenfeSy and the whole of the voluntary motions are in fonie degree abolifhed : whilfl refpiration and the action of the heart continue to be ** performed. By its being an affection of the whole of the powers of fenfe and motion, we diftinguifh it from palfy; and by its being with the continuance of refpiration and the action of the heart from fyncope, &c. Boerhaave defines apoplexy an abolition, to- tally and unrefervedly, of all the fenfes external and internal.— Eft ergo apoplexia repentina omnium fenfuum externorum et internorum, '* motunm-
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