VENESECTION IN APOPLEXY.

The Effect of Venesection

The correlation of venous, spinal fluid, and arterial pressure, before and after venesection, was studied in a series of twenty-two cases of failure of the left heart and thirteen cases of failure of the right heart. These cases were observed clinically with reference to the improvement after venesection alone, and also after venesection in combination with the removal of twenty cubic centimete...

Apoplexy

Pineal apoplexy.

A case of haematoma in the pineal region is reported in a patient whose initial symptom was subarachnoid haemorrhage. The encapsulated haematoma and surrounding blood clots were removed surgically. Haemorrhage into a pineal cyst may have been the cause of this particular intracranial mass.

Pituitary apoplexy.

Pituitary apoplexy, a rare clinical syndrome secondary to abrupt hemorrhage or infarction, complicates 2%-12% of pituitary adenomas, especially nonfunctioning tumors. Headache of sudden and severe onset is the main symptom, sometimes associated with visual disturbances or ocular palsy. Signs of meningeal irritation or altered consciousness may complicate the diagnosis. Precipitating factors (in...

Contribution to Venesection as a Remedy

Mr President and Gentlemen,?In response to the request of some of our ex-Presidents, I have selected the subject of Venesection. Though regarded as a bete noire or almost forbidden subject ?indeed, a questio vexata?at various periods during the last three centuries, yet as a wave in its favour seems now impending, I feel it my duty to contribute a few cases from past practice in illustration of...