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Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord; A Guide to Their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment, With an Anatomical and Physiological Introduction
Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord A Guide to Their Pathology Diagnosis and Treatment With an Anatomical and Physiological Introduction Author:David Drummond General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: Kimpton Subjects: Spinal cord Brain Nervous system History / General Medical / Emergency Medicine Medical / Neurology Medical / Neuroscience Medical / Surgery / Neurosurgery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origina... more »l. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter III. THE SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF BRAIN DISEASE. An inquiry into the symptoms of brain disease necessarily presupposes a knowledge of the normal functions of the cerebral organ, as a perversion of these functions furnishes the principal means whereby departures from the healthy state can be detected. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the physiological facts already adduced will prove sufficient to meet the present requirements. I propose first to review the leading features of cephalic semeiology, and then to discuss shortly the means employed in eliciting such signs as may require a certain amount of skill in their discovery. MENTAL DISTURBANCES. In brain disease the intellectual faculties may or may not be involved. It is seldom, however, that a careful observer will fail to discover some evidence of mental defect. The investigation, not always easy, must be prosecuted in a judicious way so as to avoid imparting to the patient, by exciting or otherwise influencing him, a mental condition which may be foreign to him when undisturbed. A careless mode of interrogating a patient whenMental Disturbances -- Disturbances of Speech. 43 his intellectual faculties are on trial will almost certainly fail to yield the required facts. I have frequently seen a patient who has been declared altogether free from mental disturbance by his attendant, " shown up" in that direction by a skilled practitioner of psyc...« less