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Show 100 Izy‘lammation, how progressive. Inflammation, how progressive. thorax, the pia mater was highly inflamedm In the two briefhistories no mention is made of mia, I dropped water from a little height on the affected eye, to which it was grateful, but the delirium. very same instant pains arose in the opp05ite eye and side of the head. The sound eye even became red on the spot, and the trial was It was not therefore a prominent, at least, not an early symptom-In the above abstracts I have generally given the principal points oftreatment, saying nothing ofits merit. as not belonging to the present head. After surgical operations, the operation being equivalent to a spontaneous phegmasia, distant parts are found inflamed: hence probably sudden deaths. ‘ The neuroses are known to exhibit the greatest and most sudden changes ; a palsied part instantly becoming over-sensitive, and the reverse. In hysteria a palsied limb shall recover on the coming on of a fit of choakincr. In rheumatic and gouty inflammation we havealso quick shiftings of the scene. 1 h Ill/ll! in". 101 But this law of speedy transmission extends in a degree farther than is generally imagined to what is called com. mon inflammation. By accidental impressions or by art, this is transferred with as much velocity renewed some time after, with the same result. Instances, more or less analogous, will readily occur. \ Those to whom the preceding facts shall convey a new or amore distinct conviction must excuse the tediousness of the induction. They may be assured that it can be greatly extended. And some self-denial is required to suppress evi- dence, bearing upon a grand point of practice. In proportion as the system in fever is more disposed to inflammation, these metastases will be common. That it is so disposed, every ClI‘~ cumstance demonstrates, as the frequent rapid gangrene from blisters-the spbacelation ofthe parts pressed in lying, particularly when the sick continue rnotiorrless*-thehaste with which abscesses are ready to run into sinusesj‘ as any change in nervous complaints can take place. A gentleman subject to opthalmia and treated with little success by our most celebrated oculists had lately (accompanied by head-ache} a most violent attack in the right eye, which was * On remarqua dans les femmes tine plus grande tendance :3 l'assoupissement qu'au delire. La posture uniforme qu'elles guardoient dans cet etat leurattiroit des gangrenes facheuses aux cuisses et aux fesses. (Vamlcrmondc, viii. 864) T lie plus Ieger retardemerit (a dormer one issue an pus almost visibly rendering the cornea opaka des pzn‘otides) surtout lorsqu' il y avoit sous la peau quelque ap» after bleeding and some other means, which re» moved the head-ache and lessened the ophthal n'etoit pas maitre dc prevenir les fuseés et les sinus consideraa mien parence de fluctuation, en rendoit le pus si corrosir‘, qn' on bles qu' il cansoit dans le pannicule adipenx (Itirip. 360,} ' ‘ M. an»: pom M0997" |