An Enquiry Into the Various Theories and Methods of Cure in Apoplexies and Palsies

by Benjamin Chandler

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1785. ... "although no accurate modern anatomist has "pretended to demonstrate them. To which "he adds that, as the lymphatic glands of the "head and neck are larger and more numerous "than, comparing them with the inguinal and "axillary, we can suppose to correspond with "the outer fide of the head only, it cannot be "doubted that future attention to those diseases "in which acrid matter is collected within the "cranium, or proper experiments made on "living quadrupeds, or accurate dissection, "after tying up the lymphatics in the neck, "will establish the proof, that absorption within the head is performed, as elsewhere, "by the lymphatic system.".. j 112. "Besides these cases of apoplexy, "&c." Under the two preceding sections, it was pretty fully explained how an effusion of serum might happen, from increased afflux of blood in the arteries, or from plenitude and resistance in the veins; which, appearing afterwards by dissection, gave rise to the idea that apoplexy was occasioned either by an effusion of serum or of blood; and thence came the distinction of sanguineous and serous apoplexy. A distinction which, when applied to practice, could not but be productive of much mischief; as we see that they both arise from the same viz. increased action of the arteries, and over resistance of the veins. But we are now to consider two other causes of serous effusion, the one a relaxation of the exhalants, as in other cases of hydropic diathesis; the other an over proportion of watery parts in the blood, as in the case of ischuria renalis. General dropsies we see frequently end in apoplexy, the mouths of the exhalants being relaxed to a great degree and the absorbents having lost their power. Professor Cullen observes, in his lectures, that he never met with but...

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Published February 2, 2012