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Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal and Western Lancet
Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal and Western Lancet Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1. The state of the circulation and respiration in these several conditions is sufficiently obvious. There is no doubt that both these functions are much dep... more »ressed during common trembling; for this is evident, as well in the paleness and chilliness of the person trembling as in the decided relief afforded by wine. In delirium tremeng, the perspiring skin, the cold hand, the quick, compressible, fluttering pulse, ure all significant and unmistakable facts. It is evident, also, that the trembling is connected with this state of things j for if the dry skin and excited pulse of true meningitis make their appearance, the trembling is at an end. On the o:her hand, an argument to the same effect is to be found in the fact that tremor is exaggerated into subsultus, or even into convulsion, as the heart and pulse fail in the downward course of the disorder. Rigor, moreover, is coincident wilh a sense of coldness, u feeble pulse, a sunken countenance, a corrugated skin, and subsultua, with a pulse (altering in its final throes; and that this coincidence is not accidental, is seen in the fact that rigor disappears as the pulse and warmth return, and that subsultus may be checked for the time by the use of wine. And in mercurial tremor, an inference as to the real state of the circulation may be drawn from the general practice prevailing amongst the subjects of this disorder of resorting to gin and other stimulants to make themselves steady. 2. The nervous phenomena, other than tremor, are in accordance with the foregoing facts. In a bout of ordinary trembling the mental faculties are all unstrung; and in the permanent an3 extremes! form of this trouble, as in paralysis agitans, they have altogether succumbed before the inroads of age or disease, and the sufferer lives only to sleep a...« less