Pathology and Treatment of Cerebral Disease. No. III

In treating of so many-sided a subject as the pathology of cerebral disease it is impossible to adopt any definite systematic arrangement, or to adhere to one particular plan of discussing the questions which present themselves to notice. The morbid phenomena of the brain involve so many derangements in other organs and tissues of the body, and, vice versa, the derangements of the latter so often induce serious cerebral symptoms, that remarks become necessarily discursive, and nosological classification is practically impossible. As in many other branches of medical inquiry, too, so especially in that relating to cerebral disease, opinions are continually changing, although clinical facts and pathological appearances remain the same, and the interpretation of the two latter is varied almost to infinity according to the light in which the same conditions are viewed