Of the causes, nature, and treatment of palsy and apoplexy : of the forms, seats, complications, and morbid relations of paralytic and apoplectic diseases / by James Copland.

  • Copland, James, 1791-1870.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Of the causes, nature, and treatment of palsy and apoplexy : of the forms, seats, complications, and morbid relations of paralytic and apoplectic diseases / by James Copland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. A considerable part of the following Treatise was pub- lished many years ago in the first and third volumes of the Author's Dictionary of Practical Medicine, and several of the Chapters on the connection of Paralytic and Apoplectic seizures, with other disorders, formed the Croonian Lec- tures, for 1846 and 1847, at the Royal College of Physicians. The Author now publishes the whole in a connected form, believing that palsy and apoplexy should be studied in intimate connexion not only with each other, but also with other diseases, of which they are often the consequences and terminations, and with other affections which are fre- quently associated or complicated with them. From a very early period of the Author's practice he was strongly impressed by a conviction of the importance of describing not merely the primary and uncomplicated forms of disease, but also the several associated or compli- cated states in which each malady most frequently comes under the observation of the physician, and he was not the less convinced of the propriety of recognizing alliances and connections between diseases, too often described as distinct species, extreme features of difference being chiefly or only insisted upon, and intimate relations generally disregarded. The Author, in his Lectures on Pathology and Practical Medicine, and afterwards in his Dictionary, endeavoured to supply what he considered a defect in medical works ; and was the first to attempt to point out and to describe the relations, associations, or complications of each specific dis- ease, as well as the different states or forms which such disease may assume according to the various causes, circum- 1*