Volume 1

A statement of the early symptoms which lead to the disease termed water in the brain. With observations on the necessity of a watchful attention to them, and on the fatal consequences of their neglect in a letter to Martin Wall, Esq. M.D / By G.D. Yeats.

Grant David Yeats

Date:: 1815

Credit: A statement of the early symptoms which lead to the disease termed water in the brain. With observations on the necessity of a watchful attention to them, and on the fatal consequences of their neglect in a letter to Martin Wall, Esq. M.D / By G.D. Yeats. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$the usual symptoms of the last stage of hydrencephalus, and who died within a week after my visit. I was not permitted to open the body.* That many painful sensations and se¬ rious complaints are produced in the brain ^7 ^ ' / —v. /d «~A.' by an impression from other diseased or- gans, experience fully confirms. It ap~ pears to be the extent of disease in the brain, to which this impression gives rise, ♦ that creates objection. To mention one case among many others: a lady, who for a series of years had laboured under very painful derangement of the digestive func¬ tions, in which the liver had suffered greatly, discovered a defect in the vision of both eyes, attended with a sense of fulness and tightness across them, and occasional distressing pains in the back * See Duncan’s Annals of Medicine, vol. iv. p. 452, for 1 a case very similar to this, by Dr. John Ha*by, of Ponte- 1 fract.$