On the threatenings of apoplexy and paralysis, inorganic epilepsy, spinal syncope, hidden seizures, the resultant mania, etc. / by Marshall Hall.

  • Marshall Hall
Date:
1851
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Credit: On the threatenings of apoplexy and paralysis, inorganic epilepsy, spinal syncope, hidden seizures, the resultant mania, etc. / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    What are the probable effects of repeated seizures of the kind described on the delicate tissues of the brain and its membranes 1 May they be such as are des- cribed in this post-mortem examination 1 280. The Jirst effect is, doubtless, congestion. Tliis may subside after the first and second attacks. But does it entirely subside after the third or fourth 1 May it leave lesion of tissue 1 And if so, of what kind ] In the delicate tissue of the encephalon, may it have the appearance of arachnitis or of encephalitis'? — effusion of serum or of lymph ]—or softening or induration 1 281. AVhen, in cases of paroxysmal disease, such effects are found, who shall say, without years of special study and observation, whether, in fact, they be causes or effects f 282. But that in all such cases a most careful inquiry should be made, in regard to past' hidden seizures,' there can be no doubt. 283. Nor does this question cease here. It may become a legal question ; and, in another and terrible sense, a question of life and death. 284. A seizure—perhaps a hidden seizure—may take place, and leave a monomaniacal tendency to suicide or homicide. Crime may be committed, and no proof of previous insanity exist. Of such a case, the Law, hitherto, equally witla Medicine, has taken no cognizance. This crime may be one involving loss of property, honour, life.
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