Clinical lectures on important symptoms. On giddiness / by Thomas Grainger Stewart.

  • Stewart, Thomas Grainger, 1837-1900.
Date:
1884
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    CLINICAL LECTURES ON GIDDINESS. ■-——♦- / LECTURE I. Introduction.—Description of Giddiness.—Associated with other Dis¬ orders of Sensation, and with Disorders of Motion.—Equilibriation an Acquired Power.-—Subserved by Tactile, Ocular, Muscular, Articidar, Visceral, and Labyrinthine Impressions. — Anatomy and Physiology of the Semicircular Canals. — Observations of Flourens, Goltz, Cyon, Crum-Brown, Mach, and Breuer. Giddiness due to External Conditions.—Tower of Pisa.—Cliff or Tower Giddiness. —Agoraphobia. —Waltz Giddiness. —Swing Giddiness.—Giddiness in Sea-sickness. Giddiness from Abnormalities of Sensory Structures.. — In Miners' Nystagmus.—In Decent Paralysis of Ocular Muscles. GENTLEMEN,—We have frequently met with giddiness as a prominent symptom in cases which we have studied in the wards, and I promised that I would take an opportunity of discussing the subject in the lecture-room, illustrating my observations by cases which I might be able to show you or to describe. I find it useful, sometimes, to take up a symptom in this way rather than to discuss individual cases or groups of cases, as we usually do in this lecture-room. , Giddiness is a sensation with which we are all familiar ; but which it is difficult to describe. Its essential feature is the feeling of uncertainty of our position in space relatively to surrounding objects. Sometimes one feels as if objects were whirling round more or less rapidly ; sometimes one seems