An account of the appearances observed in the dissection of two of three individuals presumed to have perished in the storm of the 3d, and whose bodies were discovered in the vicinity of Leith on the morning of the 4th, November 1821 : with some reflections on the pathology of the brain / by George Kellie.

  • Kellie, George, -1829.
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[1824]
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Credit: An account of the appearances observed in the dissection of two of three individuals presumed to have perished in the storm of the 3d, and whose bodies were discovered in the vicinity of Leith on the morning of the 4th, November 1821 : with some reflections on the pathology of the brain / by George Kellie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this intelligent patliologist and observant physician. I admit, that when the arteries are enlarged by plethora, the veins are not only prevented from a corresponding enlargement, but must, probably to the same extent, be narrowed and compressed, and that ^ certain derangement of the circulation will necessarily follow. My conception, however, of this derangement of the circulation is somewhat differ- ent from his : and if we differ only in tenns, it may still be of some consequence to contrast these, as I cannot help thinking the language in which Dr Abercrombie has stated his opinions has led to still greater misconception of what was probably intend- ed by him, of what, at least, I conceive to be the true state of the question. I cannot conceive an interrupted circulation of blood within the brain while life is continued; nor can I admit that the derangement being once established, more blood I can continue to be admitted by the arteries, than is transmitted by the veins. If the tonicity of the arteries by any means become impaired, and their capacity be enlarged, if they receive an overcharge of blood, and do not transmit this directly to the veins, 'the arteries will become permanently plethoric; but the veins must, at the same time, discharge from the head a quantity of blood, equivalent to the per- imanent increase of blood in the arteries: Or, if 'the total quantity of circulating fluid within the Ihead be Z, and the quantities contained respective- ily in the arteries and veins be X and Y, then X -f* Y = Z. If now, the circulation become de-