Nervous origin of diseaese

1 i I iilliit!l!li!j!l|l!l|!!!lj pipiiiiijiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiiiii ml;: , '} Illlllllllllllillll illnlniililllii IIIHuIiiiiimii It 1 II II 1111 II NEUROPATHOLOGY; OK, THE NERVOUS ORIGIN OF DISEASE BY JOHN G^ODMiN, of Physicians, Licentiate of the Boyal College College of Surgeons Author" of the " ; M.D., London; Member and Licentiate of Apothecary's Successful Caesarian Operation of 1845 " ; » of the Hall, &c Identity of the Magnetism, Existences or Forces, Light, Heat, Electricity, and Gravitation, Sec ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL LONDON HOULSTON AND STONEMAN^ PATERNOSTER RO MANCHESTER : J AINSWORTII, PRINTER AND PUBLISHER, Royal 93, PICCADILLY MEDICAL PROFESSION, THIS WOEK, ON THE nem'ous origin IS of disease, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF POISONS 100 with sterorous breathing, sets most immediately, and death usually in a few hours." 259 "In in al- follows, habitual drunkards, a head, face, and neck, were very red, and he was in a profuse perspiration Half-an-hour afterwards, bowas found perfectly insensible, strongly convulsed, and the skin cold He died in Nervous affection, at preknown under the name of about particular sent " delirium tremens," sed, which may, often witneswith propriety, be is noticed here Delirium, characterised by constant incoherent talking, is its leading symptom, and mois of the is accompanied by tre- particularly the limbs, upper extremities In fatal cases, coma, as in the preceding instance, precedes and ushers in death 360 "With regard to the Physiological operation of Alcohol," Dr Apjohn states, " that it is generally conceived to enter the circulation, and through this medium to exert its poisonous thirty hours, In examination of the body of those who have died — from the effects of this poison the stomach has been fouud inflamed, the mucous membrane being in some cases of a bright red, and in others of a dark red, or brownish colour, attended, frequently, with unusual vascularity But it is in which the prin- lesions into the substance of the brain produ- cing genuine sanguineus apoplexy " delirium tremens " proves serous effusion is found in the When on Hit Nervous system.' " Whenj however, death occurs, as it often has, within a few minutes, it is difficult to admit that absorption could have taken place, and we are compelto refer led, with Addison and Morgan, imNervous to influence its noxious sympathy." cerebral pression and The most rapid case on record, given by Mr Taylor, Lecturer, of Guy's Hospital, in his " Manual of Medical Jurisprudence," was that of a man influence head in the These are are found venous congestion, serous effusion into the ventricles, and between the membranes, and extravasation of blood cipal fatal, in some rare instances, coagulable lymph are attached to the membranes, &c 2Gl.The Physiological and Chemical brain, and flakes of action of this poison, is set forth by the labours of the illustrious Professor Liebig, as follows, (Organic Chemis" According to all the try, p 229), observations hitherto made, neither the expired air, nor the perspiration, nor the urine, contain any trace of Alcowho drank a bottle of gin for a wager,