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Show Q5 Parallel 'qf two Authors. 929 CLUrTEaBUCK.-The symptoms which succeed to injuries inflicted on the head, some days after the accident, and which in its properties, in common with the living solids; though are known to depend upon the coming on of inflammation in with the nature of this change we are unacquainted. It appears, however, to influence its power of coagulation, p. 81. the brain, have often every character of idiopathic fever. p.152. Of remarkable coincidence in the minutiw 10,-Evidence from dissections. of this part of the subject, let the following stand for an example. PLoucaUET.--But stronger and clearer conviction con.- cerning the true seat of typhus is afforded by dissections, than Prouceu ET, in reference to the remote cause, says, one by the most probable conjectures. The greater part of these species may be denominated typhus mephiticus, because it is produced by corrupted and decompounded air, as also by various gases generated in close places.---p. 25. The brain is the primary seat of typhus, since it has so often CLUTTERBUCK.-A boy, being in perfect health at the been found, in part at least, inflamed, inundated, suppurated time, went into the cellar ofa brass-founder, where a quantity he was seized at the moment of or sphacelated, Had. It is, however, to be considered that there exist irritations entering with severe headache, and sickened immediately with and other states of disease, which leave no traces after death. fever of the typhoid form, and which continued for fourteen days.-p. 86. p. 14-. of charcoal was burning: g.--Afi‘ecti022 oft/16 blood. Ploucquet, has a little more leaning to the immoral pathology. Both, however, use simi-I exhibit morbid changes from idiopathic affection of the brain,others of other viscera, chiefly of the abdominal, p. 1!. CLUTTERBUCK.--Up0n the whole, although visible lesion of structure in the brain from inflammation be. neither a necessary nor a constant effect of fever, yet it is too frequent an occurrence to allow us to consider it as merely accidental. Disorganization has been repeatedly detected in the brain, where during life, none of the symptoms commonly sup- posed to denote the presence of phrenitis had manifested lar expressions and illustrations : There exist agents not to be resisted by the vital powers in their state of greatest integrity. They destroy, in the healthiest person, the composition of our very Imutablc fluids. By lightning and certain poisons, the whole mass of blood is instantly changed. It loses its power of coagulation and is dccompounded.--p. 8. CLUTTERBUCK.-In animals killed by the laurel water and similar narcotic poisons, the red blood has been observed to pass into the serous vessels. And the bite of the. serpent [Merriam/mus is said to occasion such a dissolution ofthe blood (or, as I should prefer saying, such an atony or paralysis of the extreme vessels) that it flows from every pore. At the same time it is not improbable that the blood itself, admitting ii to be possessed of the living principle, undergoes a change in, themselves, but merely those which characterise ordinary fever, pp. 175-8.--We are not to look for visible change of structure in every instance of fatal termination. - - - In an organ of such importance, it is easily conceivable that such a degree of derangement may take place, as even to prove fatal without leaving behind it any visible traces, p. 167-8. I'LoucoUET.-In respect to difference of seat, the inflam~ mation may sometimes occupy the investing membranes, sometimes the brain itself, p. 16. CLUTTERBUCK.---Appearances unequivocally indicative of preceding inflammation of the brain or its membranes, are exceedingly common after fevers, p. 168. |