Cerebral and mental symptoms in relation to somatic disease, anæsthetics and toxic agents, traumata and surgical procedures : with a review of the treatment of some cerebral and mental symptoms by operation / by James Christian Simpson.

  • Simpson, James Christian.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Cerebral and mental symptoms in relation to somatic disease, anæsthetics and toxic agents, traumata and surgical procedures : with a review of the treatment of some cerebral and mental symptoms by operation / by James Christian Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    IN RELATION TO SOMATIC DISEASE, AN.*:STHETICS AND TOXIC AGENTS, TRAUMATA, AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES. So wide and universal is the subject of cerebral and mental derangement in relation to the various bodily diseases, toxic agents, and surgical injuries of one sort or another, that it is only possible for a very brief review of the various conditions and their sequelae to be included in a thesis such as this. It is more important to present the subject in its entirety than to confine the remarks to an elaborate dissertation on the nervous sequels of any one particular condition. The more one works at such a subject, the more hopeless does it seem to put together, in an intelligent manner, and in such a way as to be of any practical utility, all the facts and cases known and recorded up to date. But by following a defimte plan, the present collection of theories, facts and short chmcal records, both personal and derived from other sources, may be so arranged as to give some idea of the universal influence the brain has on the body, and, conversely brain ^^^ various morbid conditions of the body on the For this purpose we may at once put on one side all anatomical considerations, and only concern ourselves with the tact that this complex nervous mechanism may be likened to so many stages of a railway line which is worked on the block system. Each subsection or reflex arc performs its functions normally in obedience to influences generated in the various organs and tissues of the body, and each lower arc or complete nervous reflex is governed and inhibited by the next higher one, till the highest and most comp ex of Jl