A treatise on madness / By William Battie.

  • Battie, William, 1704-1776.
Date:
1758
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    [ 74 ] preffure. For when internal exoftofes, indura tion of the Dura Mater, fradture intropreilion and concuilion of the head occafion fuch pref fure, Removal (which indeed intropreilion does now and then admit) is apparently impracticable. Nor can Expullion in any one of thefe cafes, or indeed in any oppreilion of the brain that is ii- milar to tumor by Fluxion, be attempted without imminent danger to the patient’s life. But the two firft intentions are almoft always to be purfued; and delirious preffure of the brain or medullary fubftance contained in the nerves demand Depletion and Revuliion, let its remoter caufes or circumftances be what they will. For, tho’ neither of thefe intentions propofe the remo val of exoflofes or any one accident juft now men tioned, yet unloading the veflels contiguous to the brain or nerves, which are thereby aggrieved, will certainly in all cafes prevent or leflen the de lirious .effect. And, if the preffure arifes folely from the difteniion of the veflels themfelves, De pletion and Revulfion are apparently the appoiite and neceffary methods of relief. When preflure of the brain or nerves is fudden, both thefe intentions may lafely and effectually be anfwered by the lancet and cupping-glafs again and again repeated in proportion to the ftrength of