British medical journal . , headache, giddiness,amnesia (anterograde as well as retrograde), dizzy feel-ings, lack of power of attention, and fatigue—stuiior,inertia, mental confusion, terrifying dreams—symptomswhich are generally met with in recent cases. There is, in both Cases i and 11, a general, though as arule not marked, chromatolytic change indicative of a lackof kinctoplasui in the neurones of variable degree. Thismay hypothctically, but with reason, be regarded as auexiHession of a fall in tho general store of neuio-poteutialof the central nervous system. The colls of Purkinje ofthe
British medical journal . , headache, giddiness,amnesia (anterograde as well as retrograde), dizzy feel-ings, lack of power of attention, and fatigue—stuiior,inertia, mental confusion, terrifying dreams—symptomswhich are generally met with in recent cases. There is, in both Cases i and 11, a general, though as arule not marked, chromatolytic change indicative of a lackof kinctoplasui in the neurones of variable degree. Thismay hypothctically, but with reason, be regarded as auexiHession of a fall in tho general store of neuio-poteutialof the central nervous system. The colls of Purkinje ofthe cerebellum show especially a complete or partial lossof the basophil substance. The vascular changes arc microscopic and widespread;there are no punctate haemorrhages of the white matter,such as I have described in gas poisoning, and which aredue to a hyaline thrombosis of terminal arterioles. Tho XOV. in, 1917] F. \V. MOTT: DEATH FROM SHELL Thk British. Mkdicai. Jocrnai-
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