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Show Hydrocephalus 1'i1! 31-24115. Changcs in the state of intellect. Nor is it likely that in aso many cases unequivocal signs of inflamm tion would be absent. These phaenomena therefore would‘seem to depend on processes more subtle and mutable, in which melastasis can take place as suddenly as the electric influence shifts on the juxtaposition andb separation of negative and positive bodiesfi" Ifydroceplmlus k himself at * All this seems agreeable to Dr. Clutterbuc of most P. 174 he says " the essential part of this, as ed structure other primary diseases, consists, not in the alter structure is a of parts, but in perverted actions-change of d action. remote effect, a consequence merely of the morbi struc- Hence if the disease prove fatal before such alteration of with n happe ture is induced (which may well be supposed to times. respect to an organ, upon the state of which all the functions ll4350w "ma t , or no of the system more or less immediately depend) few traces of the disease can be expected to be seen after death." 'On meeting with passages like this the reflecting reader might believe that he had misappreheuded his author, were there not so much about downright inflammation in the rest of the those work, and were the doctrine not evidently suggested by emtery rare cases, in which ravages from inflammation have Hydrocephalus inlcmus, To identify hydrocephalus internns also with fever was the necessary result of the preceding doctrine. Dr. Whytt had long since remarked (l. C. p. 728) that the reason why this disorder should have been totally unknown to the ancients and so little attended to by most ofthe modems may be, " that those patients what were carried off by it have been generally sup» posed to die ofa fever ending in a coma, and in such cases, the head is seldom opened."--ln the series of writers from Dr. Macbride down~ wards, common candour obliges me to state that a febris hydrocep/za/éca, often without ei‘i‘iz‘ sion, is mentioned in such a manner as to give strong countenance to the opinion ofidentityi lhave myselfbeen called in, where liydroce~ phalns never found any sensible benefit from blisters 2 and I always suspect the brain itself atfected when a fever and delirium come on wit/tout any preceding headache or redness in, 5'22: The essay on human un- tunica allvuginea of the eyes" (PVor/cs p- 722).---Dr. Harlesh lit/standing, according to Mr. Tooke, is simply an essay on in a late work has referred fever to electricity, but without tually been found in the head. The inquiry on. jet-er may turn out an attempt towards defining the single word inflammation and labour pet‘chance not ill bestowed either. r The opinion of the respectable Dr. 'Whytt on brain-feve and its distinguishing symptoms, forms a curious contrast with words. the opinion under discussion. going further than the general probability. 'l' Hue pcrtinet ille infantum dirissimus morbus - - was-:5 luydracep/zalica e scrofuloszi cacliexiéorta-ita a me appellate pi'opterea quod saepins serum rel lynxpha ultimo in stadio extra vasa in ventriculis cerebri vel in plcxu choroideo reperitur.. " ln fevers where the suh‘ Sed et absentc illé aquosa accumulatione, ita morbum vocare stance of the brain is aitcctcl, and not its membranes, 1 have HEVC 1' nNm"‘-m-, 4w..- scarcely take place. 5-" «vs-'w-e-m: 3:26 W03? ' wam M098 |