First Lines of the Practice of Physic; By William Cullen, M.D. ... in Four Volumes. with Practical and Explanatory Notes, by John Rotheram, ...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796 edition. Excerpt: ... Ses or Nervous Diseases. These I again distinguish, as they consist, eith [...]
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796 edition. Excerpt: ... Ses or Nervous Diseases. These I again distinguish, as they consist, either in the interruption and debility of the powers of fense and motion, or, in the irregularity with which these powers are exercised; and have accordingly arranged them under the four orders of Comata, Adynamits, Spa/mi, and Vesaniae, to be defined as we proceed to treat, of them more particularly. K4 BOOK 1093. "J" TNDER this title are compress hended those affections which have been commonly called the Soporose diseases; but they are most properly distinguished by their consisting in some interruption or suppression of the bowers of e H A P. 1. OF APOPLEXY. 1094. A POPLEXY is that disease in which the whole of the external and internal senses, and the whole of the voluntary motions, are in some degree abolished; while respiration, and the action of the heart, continue to be performed. By its being an affection of the "The appearance of a profound and continual '.' sleep" the whole of the powers of sense and of voluntary motion, we distinguish it from 'Palsy; and by its being with the continuance of respiration and the action of the heart, it is distinguished from Syncope. I have "sleep" is by Boerhaave judiciously added to the definition of Apoplexy. To distinguish between a profound sleep and apoplexy, which very much resemble each other, is, however, extremely easy. A man, in a profound sleep may in general be roused by the application of strong stimulants to the organs of fense, which produce no effect on an apoplectic patient. To distinguish between apoplexy and a sit of drunkenness, is not so easy, for drunken people are sometimes incapable of being roused by anystimulantS; remaining totally insensible and motionless. The fumes of the liquor with which..