A Treatise On Apoplexy Cerebral Hemorrhage Cerebral Embolism Cerebral Gout Cerebral Rheumatism And Epidemic Cerebro Spinal Meningitis PDF Download

Excerpt from A Treatise on Apoplexy: Cerebral Hemorrhage, Cerebral Embolism, Cerebral Gout, Cerebral Rheumatism, and Epidemic Cerebro Spinal Meningitis M. Littre says: "Le mot apoplexie, souvent aussi vague dans la bouche du medecin, que dans celle du malade, se prete a toutes les interpretations dc Vignorancer (Vide Diet, de Med.; article, Apoplexie.) The late Dr. Jones Quain remarked that when, we look into works on medicine, we are struck with the confusion which exists in the nomenclature of cerebral diseases. (Mushet.) Besides, it is generally admitted that we know less concerning the structure, functions, diseases, and morbid anatomy of the brain than of almost any other part of the body. The following pages have been written because the author believed that he had something of importance to say on the subject of apoplexy. At first, he intended to write only a brief memoir on this topic. Accordingly, some four or five years ago, he began to prepare, from original cases and observations, an article for publication in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences; but it soon became so bulky as to exceed even the capacious limits of that large and influential quarterly. The author was therefore compelled either to suppress what he had written, or to publish it in book-form. But, after mature reflection as to which of these courses he ought to pursue, it appeared to him that these cases and observations were much too numerous and valuable, and that they had cost the expenditure of too much time and labor in their collection, to be lightly thrown away. Carefully recorded histories of the aute-mortem phenomena and post-mortem lesions of such cases are still far too few in number; and, indeed, it is probable that we can never make them too numerous, if we expect ever to clear up the obscure points in cerebral pathology and therapeutics. Moreover, this writing constitutes the first instalment of what the author proposes to contribute as the quota of work required from him for illustrating the pathology and treatment of cephalic diseases and injuries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."