St. Louis Courier Of Medicine, Vol. 15

Excerpt from St. Louis Courier of Medicine, Vol. 15: January-June, 1886This in turn begets arterial tension favored by hypertrophy of the heart, a state usually incident. The brain is first hyperemic, and this condition is succeeded by effusion, which pressing upon the minuter vessels increases the area Of cerebral anemia.This theory is supported by the experiments of brown-sequard who demonstrated that an anemic condition Of the brain and nervous centres precedes an epileptic attack.While there is in this theory much to commend for its ingenu ity, and in many cases to accept without question, yet there are many unexplained difficulties to its acceptance as a finality.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.