Of the Causes, Nature, and Treatment of Palsy and Apoplexy: Of the Forms, Seats, Complications, and Morbid Relations of Paralytic and Apoplectic Diseases (Classic Reprint)

Name: Of the Causes, Nature, and Treatment of Palsy and Apoplexy: Of the Forms, Seats, Complications, and Morbid Relations of Paralytic and Apoplectic Diseases (Classic Reprint)
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By James Copland

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Excerpt from Of the Causes, Nature, and Treatment of Palsy and Apoplexy<br/><br/>See Art. Hemorrhage in Author's Dictionary of Practical Medicine, &c., vol. P. 92. After the appearance of Mr. Gulliver's memoir on this change in the arteries, the Author has examined, after fatal hemorrhage, the changes in the bloodvessels more minutely than before, and he is induced, from what he has observed, to conclude that the changes formerly termed atheromatous, although more or less resembling fat, are not actually this substance, though closely allied to it, or containing it in various proportions, in connection with more or less of other animal matters. When treating of the diseases of the arteries in his Die tionary, the Author imputed these changes to altered nutri tion, owing to failure of the organic nervous in?uence endowing the cerebral vessels, and this idea he has sup ported in the present treatise, believing the change in the vessels to be consecutive of impairment of the functional energy of these nerves, and the effusion, softening, disor ganization, &c., to be the ultimate results of this procession of changes Â first in these nerves, next in the vessels, and ultimately in the cerebral structure and membranes. He has stated these changes, in general terms, to be athero matous or fatty: but they are really of a composite nature, and consist of various proportions of olein, margarin, choles terin and albuminous matter deposited in or between the coats of the arteries; the more strictly fatty deposit assum ing the form sometimes of oil-globules, or fat-globules, or of fat granules. It is not improbable that these changes are owing not merely to impaired organic nervous power, either generally or locally, but also to the state of the blood Â to a superabundance, consequent upon imperfect assimilation of these substances in the blood, and to a per verted nutrition; and that they are independent of in?am matory action in the coats of the arteries.

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Binding:: Paperback
Languages:: Published: English , Original: English
Number of Pages:: 338
Publisher:: Forgotten Books
Publication Date:: 2018-12-11
Weight:: 454 g

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