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New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, and Collateral Branches of Science
New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and Collateral Branches of Science Author:Walter Channing General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1819 Original Publisher: Wells and Lilly Subjects: Medicine Surgery Medical / General Medical / History Medical / Surgery / General Medical / Surgery / Neurosurgery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may... more » be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: This case serves, in Dr. Serres's opinion, to complete the theory of paralysis by the formation of a cicatrix in the substance of the brain. For it is evident that the cyst had been completely obliterated, and that the fall had destroyed the central part of the cicatrix, ruptured the capillaries, and produced the sanguineous effusion. Nor is it less obvious that the paralysis had disappeared with the formation of the cicatrix, and recurred afresh on the production of a new cyst. In a work which he is about to publish on apoplexy and paralysis, Dr. Serres promises to adduce additional facts illustrative of the relation between the recurrence of paralysis and the destruction of cerebral cicatrices, or the formation of new cysts besides the old one. At present he contents himself with drawing from these cases the important conclusion, that cysts formed in the substance of the brain, as well as the paralysis dependent on them, are certainly curable, and that the process of re-organisation is the same in the encephalon as in other organs. Lond. Med. Repos. Poisoning by colocynth. -- The following examples of the poisonous effects produced by the internal employment of col. ocynth (cucumis colocynthis) are recorded by Professor Orfi- Ia, in the second edition of his celebrated treatise on Poisons, which has recently been published. 1. A sadler, aged twenty-eight, who had been subject to the hemorrhoids, had for some time complained of pains in ...« less