The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . ears,confused vision, incoherence of ideas, loss of memory, and numbness*of the extremities. The fit is characterized by complete insensibility;slow, noisy, and usually stertorous or puffing breathing; impededdeglutition; flushed and livid countenance; prominent and motionlesseye, and generally a fixed or contracted state of the pupil; the limbsare rigid, motionless, or convulsed; the bowels are obstinately consti-pated, or the feces pass involuntarily; the uriue is passed uncon-sciously, or retained until the bladder is ful
The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . ears,confused vision, incoherence of ideas, loss of memory, and numbness*of the extremities. The fit is characterized by complete insensibility;slow, noisy, and usually stertorous or puffing breathing; impededdeglutition; flushed and livid countenance; prominent and motionlesseye, and generally a fixed or contracted state of the pupil; the limbsare rigid, motionless, or convulsed; the bowels are obstinately consti-pated, or the feces pass involuntarily; the uriue is passed uncon-sciously, or retained until the bladder is full, then dribbling sway. Thepulse is variable; it may be full, hard, and quick, or weak andfrequent. Diagnosis.—It may be distinguished from the stvpor of drunkenness,by the alcoholic odor of the breath in intoxication, and from the narcosisproduced by various piisons, by the capability of occasionally rousingthe patient in the latter affection. T~eatmcnt.— I he first thing to be done is to remove the patient tc ? 246 PATHJL0G1 AND TH E R A F EUTIC8 Fig.
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