Vicious circles in disease / by Jamieson B. Hurry.

  • Jamieson Boyd Hurry
Date:
1913
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    from the perforation of an empyema into the respir¬ atory passages. Every cough, although an act of self-defence, increases the flow of pus, which may flood the passages, in spite of vigorous expectoration : “The more the patient coughs, the more profusely the pus streams into the bronchi as a result of the expiratory rise in pressure, and such a Circulus Vitiosus can only end in death.” 1 Other fatal Circles associated with the respiratory tract will be found in Chapters IV. and X. III.—DEATHS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NERVOUS SYSTEM Apoplexy. Cerebral haemorrhage may cause death, through the intermediary of a striking Circle. The factors which give rise to the condition have already been described (cf. p. 16), and need not be repeated. Where death supervenes rapidly, the blood under the abnormally high pressure has probably compressed and paralysed the vagal and respiratory centres in the medulla. Such a terminal event, however, is uncommon. The fatal issue is probably more often due to another Circle which has also been 1 Pick and Hecht, Clinical Symptomatology, tr. by Koessler, p: 259.