Chapter 88

Accompanying endocarditis,

792

Miliary form,

792

of septic origin,

792

Post-paralytic phenomena of,

791

Sequelæ of,

791

B

RAIN AND

S

PINAL

C

ORD

, C

ONCUSSION OF THE

,

908

Definition and morbid anatomy,

908

Diagnosis,

909

Symptoms,

908

Mental state,

908

Pulse and temperature in,

909

Pupils, state of,

909

Treatment, bromide of potassium, heat and cold, use,

911

,

912

of reaction,

911

Stimulants, use of,

911

B

RAIN

, A

TROPHY AND

H

YPERTROPHY OF

,

993

Atrophy

during childhood,

993

Causes, symptoms, and treatment,

994

of the fully-developed,

994

Causes, morbid anatomy, and symptoms,

995

Treatment,

996

Hypertrophy

,

996

Course, diagnosis, prognosis, symptoms, and treatment,

998

Etiology and morbid anatomy,

997

Brain and its envelopes, tumors of,

1028

and membranes, changes in, in acute simple meningitis,

719

in alcoholism,

617

in cerebral meningeal hemorrhage,

713

,

714

in external pachymeningitis,

705

in general paralysis of the insane,

196

in hæmatoma of the dura mater,

708

in tubercular meningitis,

730-732

and spinal cord, diseases of membranes of,

703

lesions of, in insanity,

121

microcephalic, size of,

139

softening of,

918

,

989

in children,

990

state of, in chronic hydrocephalus,

944

syphilis of,

1003

Brain-cortex, syphilis of (see

Syphilitic Affections of Nerve-centres

).

Brain, gross appearances of, in brain tumors,

1050

Brain-tire, treatment of,

358

Breathing, hysterical,

245

Bright's disease as a cause of intracranial hemorrhage and apoplexy,

930

Bromate of potassium, use of, in epilepsy,

501

Bromide of nickel, use of, in epilepsy,

500

Bromide of potassium, use of, in acute simple meningitis,

721

in acute spinal meningitis,

752

in chronic cerebral meningitis,

722

in concussion of spine,

911

in hæmatoma of the dura mater,

710

in hystero-epilepsy,

313

in insanity,

136

in melancholia,

160

in migraine,

1232

in tetanus,

558

in tumors of the brain,

1068

Bromides, use of, in alcoholism,

642

,

645

,

646

in cerebral anæmia,

789

hyperæmia,

773

in chorea,

455

in epilepsy,

499

,

500

in insomnia,

380

,

381

,

382

in migraine,

414

,

415

in spinal sclerosis,

905

,

906

in the opium habit,

674

,

676

in tubercular meningitis,

736

in vertigo,

427

Bronchi, disorders and lesions of, in chronic alcoholism,

608

C.

C.

Cachexia, alcoholic, characters,

616

Caffeine, use of, in migraine,

1232

in neuralgia,

1229

Caisson disease, a form of spinal hyperæmia,

804

Calabar bean, use of, in tetanus,

557

in tetanus neonatorum,

565

Cancer of the brain,

1049

Cannabis indica, habitual addiction to,

667

use of, in alcoholism,

645

in brain tumors,

1068

in cerebral anæmia,

788

,

789

in migraine,

413

,

415

,

1232

in the opium habit,

676

in tetanus,

557

Capillary cerebral embolism,

979

Capsicum, use of, in alcoholism,

642

Carbuncles, as a cause of thrombosis of cerebral veins and sinuses,

985

Caries of teeth, as a cause of neuralgia,

1229

,

1233

Caries of temporal bone, as a cause of tubercular meningitis,

725

Carotids, ligation of, as a cause of cerebral anæmia,

777

C

ATALEPSY

,

314

Definition and synonyms,

314

Diagnosis,

334

from apoplexy and intoxication,

336

from epilepsy,

335

from simulation,

337

from tetanus,

336

Etiology,

315

Age, influence on causation,

315

Imitation, influence on causation,

319

Reflex irritation,

318

Sex and puberty,

318

History,

315

Pathology and duration,

334

Prognosis,

337

Symptoms,

320

of cataleptoid phenomena in the insane,

327

of hypnotic catalepsy,

322

of unilateral catalepsy,

324

Onset of seizures, mode of,

320

Pulse, respiration, and temperature in,

321

Reflex irritability, changes in,

321

Sensation, disturbances of,

321

Wax-like flexibility in,

321

,

337

Treatment,

338


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