An inaugural dissertation on the apoplexy : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing ..., the Trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania : for the degree of Doctor of Medicine : on the 19th. day of May, A.D. 1794. / by John Lamb, Jun. of New-York.

  • Lamb, John.
Date:
M,DCC,XCIV [1794]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the apoplexy : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing ..., the Trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania : for the degree of Doctor of Medicine : on the 19th. day of May, A.D. 1794. / by John Lamb, Jun. of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    able, the pulfe may be another criterion, which is more frequent and not fo full as in apoplexy. Some- times phenomena fimilar to thofe of apoplexy have been brought on by overloading the ltomach with food difficult of folution ; when this happens it is laid, that the patient exhibits marks of oppreflion and uneafy fenfations of his flomach, and the pulfe is not iojlow and/«// as in apoplexy. It will certainly be proper in every cafe of this kind, to free the flomach from the load and oppreflion; the remedies fuitable for this indication will be large draughts of warm water, gentle emetics, if vom- iting cannot be excited by any other means; it will be of the greateft importance to throw out the con- tents of the ftomach as foon and early as poffible, becaufe they may excite effufions in the brain. Ap- oplexy is to be diftinguimed from palfy, by its be- ing an affection of all the powers of fenfe and vo- luntary motion, and from fyncope, by its being with the continuance of the action of the heart, ar- teries and refpiration. The predisponent Causes. Whatever caufes or circumftances occa- fion a preternatural accumulation of blood in the veffels of the cranium, may with propriety be confidered as predifpofmg caufes to apoplexy; therefore I mail attempt to point outfome of thofe caufes, which commonly produce^ plethoric ftate of the fyflem, and endeavour to explain at the fame time, the manner how they operate as predifpof- ing caufes, in producing the difeafe under our prefent confideration.