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... frequently in sleeplessness, that it is considered a symptom of grave disorder in the brain. Sleeplessness, at first a result, becomes a cause, increasing the disorder of which it is a symptom. § 165. Favorable Conditions for Sleep.—The best time ...

... that I have known several obscure but threatening symptoms of brain disease clear entirely away, when the gums were, made ... I desire to signify inflamma- tion of the brain, as it frequently occurs ... expressed in its symptoms, is sufficiently attested, in many of the fatal ...

... in the mind, unless 228 TREATMENT OF that disorder is accompanied by symptoms of congestion or inflam- mation of the brain, such as would lead to its employment though ...

... that I have known several obscure but threatening symptoms of brain disease clear entirely aAvay, when the gums were made ... I desire to signify inflamma- tion of the brain, as it frequently occurs in ... expressed in its symptoms, is sufficiently attested, in many of the fatal ...

... coming on slowly. If in the visual centres, disorders of vision, etc. Tumors in the mid brain, in the neighborhood of the cor- pora quadrigemina, give rise to a combination of symptoms which have been described as ophthalmoplegia ; it is ...

... to gastric irritation, is also associated with certain brain diseases, and is a serious symptom in conditions of severe toxemia or great exhaustion ( ... conditions of shock or collapse, hiccup is a symptom of serious exhaustion. ... pressure on the brain; intractable hiccup is not infrequently met with in ...

... called bilateral temporal hemianopsia. Hemianopsia is a local symptom of brain-disease, which is of value in determining the lesion in connection with the other symptoms. It is not amiss, therefore, gentlemen, to urge ...

... delusions, the imperfect speech, and finally the paretic symptoms. Any gross brain disease may of course produce depression of spirits, but ... this with a true melan- cholia, and the symptoms of these gross brain diseases will be found in their proper chapters under ...

... and various delirium ; which are all of them symptoms denoting a great disorder in the functions of the brain. Zdly, The anxiety, palpitation, syncope, and especially the ...

... made out chiefly by a study of the symptoms of brain diseases compared with the anatomical changes. The lateral surfaces ... central neurons. The earlier in its course a brain disease comes under ... is the diagnosis, and the more favorable the outlook for treatment. ...