Synopsis of apoplexy and epilepsy, with observations on trachelismus, laryngismus, and tracheotomy; and the proposal for a hospital for epileptics / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Synopsis of apoplexy and epilepsy, with observations on trachelismus, laryngismus, and tracheotomy; and the proposal for a hospital for epileptics / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    guished physician suggested tracheotomy as a remedial means in hydro- phobia, having observed the laryngismus which takes place in that most formidable of maladies. Dr. Herbert Mayo extended the proposition to tetanus. To Mr. Sampson belongs the honor of having performed this operation in a case of comatose affection; and to Dr. Johnson, that of having performed it in a case of laryngismus stridulus. All these gentle- men were, I believe, influenced by the appearance of the patient in these several affections, and limited their views to individual cases. 265. My proposition is the suggestion of Physiology and Pathology. It is also a generalization. It has saved one life, and rescued the poor man from dire epileptic attacks: I know of no case in the annals of medicine of deeper interest. And it has converted the epilepsia gravior, in another case, into the epilepsia mitior !