Volume 1

The seats and causes of diseases, investigated by anatomy : containing a great variety of dissections, and accompanied with remarks / by John Baptist Morgagni ... abridged, and eluciated with copious notes, by William Cooke.

  • Morgagni, Giambattista, 1682-1771.
Date:
1822
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    When the dura mater was slightly touched with the extremity of the finger, much uneasiness ^ was occasioned, and a thousand little torches! seemed to be immediately produced before the! eyes: the woman at the same time screamed vio-^ lently.—Ix. 14. | Whatever tends to obstruct the circulation of| blood through the aorta, occasions excessive deter-j mination of blood to the head. This has happened! from curvature of the spine, and from tumours! pressing upon the aorta. In a case of rupture of a; lateral branch of the left carotid artery, from which i the patient had been paralytic on the right side, I the aorta was found to be comjjressed by an aneu-' rismal tumour connected with the kidney. ' Intense thought, especially in the recumbent' position, is prejudicial to those who are liable to! determination of blood to the head; but it has': not unfrequently happened that the degree of? health has been improved immediately before;i the apoplectic attack. A monk who had ab-.j stained from preaching for many days, on account ! of indisposition, on the day of his attack reported^ himself to be in perfect health. He ascended: the pulpit with alacrity, and commenced tliat. discourse which he was not permitted to completCij Apoplexy has supervened upon the suppression 1 of nasal hemoiThage by astringents; and a bOy ii! reported by Slevogtius to have died apoplectic in; the night after having had his hair violently pulletj; by an enraged schoolmaster. The scalp was deii tached from the periostium, and blood was largely extravasated on the dura mater: it was also effused: