On the threatenings of apoplexy and paralysis, inorganic epilepsy, spinal syncope, hidden seizures, the resultant mania, etc. / by Marshall Hall.

Date:
1851
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Credit: On the threatenings of apoplexy and paralysis, inorganic epilepsy, spinal syncope, hidden seizures, the resultant mania, etc. / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    tion flush tlie face and neck. But what wc term eoo'pression^ as it affects the neck, is the first stage of trachelismus; and blushing and flushing are forms of phlebismus. Extremes of these become cerebral or spinal seizures. Similar remarks may be made with regard to the Irritations. Errors in diet and deranged states of the alimentary canal, and excited conditions of the ute- rine system, are causes of disease to which man- kind is most subject in a state of civilisation. I have explained the manner in which these and other causes of irritation act diastaltically on the neck, its nerves, its muscles, and its veins. I beg, once for all, to state that I have excluded from the following pages, as from the Lectures them- selves, all that did not bear on my argument. I pro- pose in due time to put my subject into a more sys- tematic form. The present state of the inquiry will be at once known by adding to this little work my Synopsis of the Diastaltic Nervous System, published a year ago.