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An essay on the nature, causes, and treatment, of water on the brain / [William Shearman].

  • Shearman, William, 1767-1861.
Date:
1825
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Credit: An essay on the nature, causes, and treatment, of water on the brain / [William Shearman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tricles is discovered, they decide that the whole train of symptoms had arisen from the affection of the brain, and denomi- nate the complete series hydrocephalus. On the other hand, we frequently dis- cover effusion to have taken place im the ventricles, without any febrile symptoms having manifested themselves; so that we cannot justly consider effusion i the brain as the proximate cause of the febrile symptoms in any one case. The same proximate cause must at all times produce the same disease, which disease can never be present without the very same proximate cause, conformably> to the acknowledged definition, “ causa proxima est illa que przsens morbum facit,” &e. © Viewing, then, dropsy of the brain as
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