Lectures on the theory and practice of physic / by William Stokes.
- William Stokes
- Date:
- 1840
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![LECTURE XXI. Painters' colic—Effect of metallic poisons on the nervous system—Symptoms of painters' colic—Pathology of neuroses—Action of lead on the syst m—Abdominal and cerebral symptoms—Species of painters' colic—Dr. Thomson's researches on lead—Effects of in animals—Effects of on the generative system . 223 LECTURE XXII. Pathology of painters' colic—Researches on the state of the nervous and digestive systems—Treatment—Use of narcotics, purgatives, tobacco, &c, &c.—Treatment of paralysis from lead—Efficacy of strychnine and brucine—Colic from copper —Poisonous effects of mercury—Remarkable case—Affection of the respiratory muscles ........ 232 LECTURE XXIII. Diseases of the nervous system—Pathology of, unknown—Molecular change in the nervous centres—Difficulties of distinguishing arachnitis from encephalitis—Gene- ral and partial cerebritis—Symptomatology of—Diagnosis of—Preservation of intel- lect in—Production of general symptoms by local lesion. . . 241 LECTURE XXIV. Encephalitis, diagnosis of—Preservation of function with organic disease—Vicarious actions of parts—Importance of pathology to phrenology—Use of pathology to phre- nologists—Arachnitis at the base of the brain—Symptoms of—Influence of age over the intellectual faculties—Opinions of Bouillaud, Serres, and Foville—Influence of the optic thalami and corpus striatum on the motions of the extremities—Diagnosis of disease of the cerebellum—Connection with the generative system—Remarkable cases of—[Discussions in the French Academy on] ... 25 LECTURE XXV. Symptoms of encephalitis—Conclusions as to contraction and paralysis—Remarkable cases of encephalitis—Abscesses in the brain—Sympathetic affections—Enteritis simulating cerebritis—Prognosis in cerebritis—Remote neuralgia a symptom 267 LECTURE XXVI. Encephalitis—Treatment of in the adult—Importance of energetic means—Dangerous effects of opening the temporal artery or jugular vein—Copious blood-letting from the arm—Difficulty of producing syncope—Employment of cold—Good effects from purgatives—Encephalitis caused by piles—Treatment—Beneficial effects of blisters —Mercury—Dangerous effects of emetics—Dessault's treatment—Use of opium— Violent counter-irritation of coma—Application of boiling water—Treatment of par- tial encephalitis—[Softening of the Brain] .... 276 LECTURE XXVII. Analysis of symptoms of cerebritis—Inconstancy of pain—Arachnitis, pain of—Inter- mittent pain—Headache—Phenomena of the eye—State of the pupils—Various affections of the functions of vision—Researches of Parent and Martinet—Relief by convulsions—Brain considered as a secreting organ—Dangerous effects of opium; delirium—Phenomena of organic life—Vomiting in hydrocephalus—Sympathies of the digestive and respiratory systems—Treatment of hydrocephalus—Of internal remedies—Cancrum oris, treatment of ..... 288 LECTURE XXVIII. Apoplexy—Cerebritis and meningitis—Definition of apoplexy—Simple or nervous apoplexy without disorganization—Complicated with other diseases—Congestive or serous apoplexy—Dr. Abercrombie's opinions^Apoplexy with extravasation—Sites of extravasation—Absorption of clot—Apoplexy in children , . 301 LECTURE XXIX. Apoplectic effusions—Curative process adopted by nature—Periods of life most subject to apoplexy—Connection of temperaments [and sex] with disposition to apoplexy— Researches of Rochoux—Principles of diagnosis—Varieties of apoplexy—Connec- tion of symptoms with pathological appearances—Rostan's division of—Different symptoms of—Double effusions—Rupture into ventricles—Hemiplegia—Value of the suddenness of paralysis as a diagnostic examined—Symptoms of apoplectic effu- sions ......... 310](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2115692x_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
