Observations on chronic inflammation of the brain and its membranes / by John Abercrombie.

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[1818]
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    OBSERVATIONS ON CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN AND ITS MEMBRANES. By JOHN ABERCROMBIE, M. D. FELLOW OP THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH* C.From the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, No, 55.]] iHE most common diseases are the most important. Rare and singular affections may excite curiosity, but the real improvement of medical science will be best promoted by a faith- ful record of facts, calculated to illustrate those diseases which excite our daily interest by their frequency and their danger. Among these may justly be reckoned the^aftections of the BrSini In their varied forms, they meet uTat every agg. and in ever^- rank; they often set at defiance Ar most powerful remedies t and, after being rapidly fatal, they frequently leave in the im- portant organ affected, so slight and imperfect traces®-4aLlheii.' gglarfi that we are only left to contemplate the fallacy of ouc do^rines, and the inefficiency ol^our mj2st4iowerful remedies. % Diseases of the brain may be divided!^ three classes,The1: inflammatory, the apoplectic, and the organic. Active inflam/ mation of the brain is in this country so uncommon, that some FZhu, »« idiopathic dise^c.
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