...congestion, and after one of those enormous bleedings commonly practised in these cases, and no morbid appearances were discovered after death in the brain....these picked cases, selected to prove a point, and forming a small proportion to those of another character? Their very number gives the negative to this...

...cases, and no morbid appearances were discovered after death in the brain". Dr. Gooch then observes : " These cases, if fair specimens of puerperal insanity,...congestion or inflammation, but one of excitement without power".1 Of the correctness of this conclusion there cannot, I apprehend, be a doubt. As far as it...

...congestion), and after one of those enormous bleedings commonly practised in these cases, and no morbid appearances were discovered after death, in the brain....congestion or inflammation, but one of excitement without power."1 Add to this, that Esquirol found no traces of cerebral inflammation upon most careful examination....

...commonly practised in these cases, and no morbid appearances were Midwifery, p. 619. 744 PUEKFKRAL MASÍA. discovered after death, in the brain. These cases,...inflammation, but one of excitement without power."* Add to this, that Esquirol found no traces of cerebral inflammation upon most careful examination....

...congestion, and after one of those enormous bleedings commonly practised in these cases, and no morbid appearances were discovered after death in the brain....these picked cases, selected to prove a point, and forming a small proportion to those of another character ? Their very number gives the negative to...

...congestion i, a-jd after one of those enormous bleedings commonly practised in these cases, mid no morbid appearances were discovered after death, in the brain....congestion or inflammation, but one of excitement without power."1 Add to this, that Esquirol found no traces of cerebral inflammation upon most careful examination....

...modification of phrenitis; but modern experience thoroughly corroborates the view which was taken by Gooch, "that the disease is not one of congestion or inflammation, but one of excitement without power" — an opinion which derives most ample confirmation from the narrative which he gives, in his admirable...

...organ, and assert that when inflammation exists it is only a complication. They believe with Gooch, " that the disease is not one of congestion or inflammation, but one of excitement without power." While another party think that many of the severe cases of mania arise from congestion or inflammation,...

...mistaken identity are of favorable omen. Simpson reasoning upon the pathological basis of Gooch, viz., that " The disease is not one of congestion or inflammation, but one of excitement without power," strongly recommends the application of a blister to the nucha when the disease does not leave off within...

...Davis, are of the opinion that puerperal insanity is of inflammatory origin. Gooch, however, maintains that the disease is not one of congestion or inflammation, but one of excitement without power. disease. Indeed, it seems altogether probable that it is only a functional, and not an organic derangement."...