On the threatenings of apoplexy and paralysis, inorganic epilepsy, spinal syncope, hidden seizures, the resultant mania, etc. / by Marshall Hall.

Date:
1851
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    I proceed to the more detailed discussion of my subject. 1.—The Paroxysmal Form of this Class of Diseases. 37. The first characterictic of the Class of dis- eases of which I am about to treat, is—their Parox- ysmal form. 38. Simple apoplexy, simple paralysis, not less than epilepsy and spinal syncope, may occur, recede, and recur, promptly, repeatedly, at varied intervals. Trachelismus, with its effect, phlebismus, is, indeed, to paroxysmal apoplexy and paralysis, what laryngis- mus is to epilepsy. Both are equally spasmodic, and subject to the laws of spasmodic affection. 39. In the first instance, the remission or recovery from these seizures may be perfect. Afterwards, some permanent effect remains, and there may be a degree of inarticulateness of speech, a little tendency to the flow of saliva over the lip, or a little debility in the movements of an extremity; or the mental faculties, the power of attention, of apprehension, of memory, may be somewhat impaired,—and nothing more. 40. These effects are equally the result of apo- plectic or of epileptic seizures, though more speedily of the former than of the latter. 41. The causes too of these two forms of disease of the nervous system are the same—and chiefly, mental emotion and gastric irritation.