The intracranial circulation : an essay to which was awarded the first prize of the Boylston Medical Society in 1867 / by Thomas Dwight.

  • Dwight, Thomas, 1843-1911.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The intracranial circulation : an essay to which was awarded the first prize of the Boylston Medical Society in 1867 / by Thomas Dwight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    serves, the anaesthetic very probably modified the cerebral circulation. It is clear, then, that more cholesterine is discharged from the brain than from the other parts of the bodjL Omitting the doubtful, and considering only the proved, from among many conclusions to be ob- tained we may select the following: — 1st. That the circulation within the cranium va- ries according to the wants of the system or acci- dental circumstances. 2d. That, though it is regulated by the same forces that govern the general circulation, their ac- tion is modified by many peculiar arrangements of surrounding media. 3d. That the cerebro-spinal fluid maintains the plenitude of the skull and spinal canal, the cranium being very nearly a closed case, and the brain al- most incompressible. 4th. That the blood returned from the brain dif- fers in its composition from the rest of the venous ’ blood.