A discourse upon the nature and cause of sudden deaths; and the reason why such numbers of people died suddenly in the years 1730 and 1731, with the most proper indications both to discover the danger, and prevent the fatal stroke from taking effect : To which is added, a dissertation upon bleeding in a fit of the apoplexy; with remarks upon the case of an illustrious person that lately dy'd abroad upon his travesl. To which is prefix'd, a preface in defence of the theory of medicine. Against the cavils and exceptions of some late writers ... / By Nicholas Robinson.

  • Nicholas Robinson
Date:
1732
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Credit: A discourse upon the nature and cause of sudden deaths; and the reason why such numbers of people died suddenly in the years 1730 and 1731, with the most proper indications both to discover the danger, and prevent the fatal stroke from taking effect : To which is added, a dissertation upon bleeding in a fit of the apoplexy; with remarks upon the case of an illustrious person that lately dy'd abroad upon his travesl. To which is prefix'd, a preface in defence of the theory of medicine. Against the cavils and exceptions of some late writers ... / By Nicholas Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £76] Head, with deep Scarifications, which greatly relieve, in a Fit of the Apo¬ plexy, arifing from this languid and de- prefs’d State of the animal Organs. Now the Cafe, I (hall take the Liber¬ ty to debate upon, is, whether it is ad- vifable, and agreeable to the Principles of Practice, to Bleed in the Fit of a Le¬ thargy or Apoplexy, arifing from a Charge ' of crude, indigeftable Meats taken into the Stomach, which, intercepting the Motion of the Blood to the Brain, by neceflary Confequence impair and leflen the Mo¬ tion of the the Heart, in both its Syftole and Diaftole. Every Body knows, that a full Meal, fome Hours after, makes us fhort breath’d, and very inclinable to fleep; and when the Stomach is extremely dis¬ tended, by fluffing and gorging to a very high Excefs, it fometimes happens, that this Organ bears fo hard upon the des¬ cending Trunk of the Aorta, as not on¬ ly to impair the Motion of the Heart, but alfo the Adion of the animal Fa¬ culties ; and confequently occafions a Le¬ thargy or Fit of an Apoplexy. The Point in Queflion is, Whether -it is pro¬ per to bleed the Patient in a Cafe thus circumfiandated, and arifing from fuch a Caufe;