Case of acute dementia treated by heat and electricity applied to the head / by Alexander Robertson.

  • Robertson, Alexander.
Date:
[1890?]
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Credit: Case of acute dementia treated by heat and electricity applied to the head / by Alexander Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    formed by the adhesion, apparently of old standing, of a point on the free margin of the omentum to the root of the mesen- tery, close to the ileo-colic junction. The patient was a boy aged 8, with no other evidences of precedent inflammatory changes in the peritoneum. Symptoms were of rather under 5 days’ duration. ii.—Dr. Joseph Coats showed— 1. Two aneurisms of the aorta, showing the mode of rupture into the trachea, and one showing pressure on the pneumo- gastric with gangrene of lung. An account of these cases by Professor Gairdner and Dr. Coats will appear as a separate article in an early number of the Glasgow Medical Journal. 2. Cancer of terminal part of common bile duct; distension of ducts and gall-bladder; rupture of gall-bladder; biliary peritonitis. An account of this case by Dr. Finlayson and Dr. Coats appeared in the Glasgoiv Medical Journal for August (p. 84). 3. (a) Case of fatty tumour inside a rib; (6) Angioma of liver; (c) Ovarian tumour attached to great omentum, and with twisted pedicle. A description of these specimens, with drawings of a and c, has already appeared in the Glasgoiv Medical Journal for August (p. 81). hi.—Dr. Coats and Dr. Finlayson showed— Cancer of the oesophagus with secondary tumours in the vertebrae; involvement of recurrent laryngeal. For full account of this case see Glasgoiv Mediccd Journal for September (p. 161). IV.—CASE OF ACUTE DEMENTIA TREATED BY HEAT AND ELECTRICITY APPLIED TO THE HEAD. By Alexander Robertson, M.D. Dr. Alexander Robertson showed a patient who had recovered from this form of mental disease. She is 20 years of age, a linen presser to occupation, and had been admitted to the Infirmary on 10th January, 1890. She was of a retiring disposition when well, and very much given to reading when free from work. Menstruation had been regular up till time of illness. This was of about two months’ standing, and no definite cause was known ; no tendency to insanity in the family. There was some excite-