Clinical Observations on Functional Nervous Disorders (1864)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: becomes blind. Other symptoms which have been observed are, " dizziness, stupefaction, insensibility, loss of consciousness, of speech, and of free play of the muscles in general; difficulty in swallowing, nausea, vomiting, swooning, and coma." The authors whom we are quoting proceed to state that pest-mor- tem examination traces the cause of the paralysis to anaemia and softening of the corresponding cerebral hemisphere, to a greater or less extent. They are satisfied that "epileptic convulsions only manifest themselves in man, when, together with the cerebrum, some or all of the parts of the encephalic mass lying behind the thalami optici are suddenly deprived of blood to a sufficient amount, but that sudden falling down, announcing the approach of an apoplectic attack (?), unconsciousness, and insensibility, originate in causes proceeding from the brain proper." The affection termed by Trousseau, " congestion cerebrale apoplecti- forme," in which he believes there is no congestion at all, but that the disorder is rather allied to epilepsy or syncope, seems to be essentially of anaemic character. A man falls down suddenly, as if stricken by apoplexy; is taken up in a state of stupor, and for a quarter of an hour, or even longer, remains more or less in the same condition?his intelligence confused, and his gait uncertain. The following day he is quite well. In slighter cases, the patient is attacked, all at once, with giddiness; loses sight and speech, and staggers, sometimes falling down, but getting up again immediately. In three or four minutes he is quite recovered. In these cases, as in ordinary epilepsy, the face is pale at the commencement of the attack, and only becomes flushed afterwards. It is a curious circumstance, which was observed in the compression of the carotid ...

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