Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-12-16
Sleep, Painting, ApOplexy.

and his lungs play, but you can easily
wake him up.
If person faints, he too il without
sense, but he has no pulse and does not
breathe.
Apoplexy is between the two; the
heart beats, the lungs play as in sleep,
and there is no sense as in fainting, but
you can't shake the man back to life.
In sleep the face is natural.
In fainting fit, it has the pallor Of
death.
In apoplexy, it is swollen, turgid and
fairly livid.
If a man is asleep let him alone; ma
ture will wake MIN up as soon as he has
got sleep enough.
When person faints, all that is need.
ed is to lay him down fiat on the floor
and he will come to in double quick
time. He tainted because the heart
missed beat, failed for an instant,
failed for only once to send the proper
amount of blood to the brain. If you
place the patient in horizontal position
lay him on his back it does not re-
quire much force of the heart to send
the blood on level to the head but
if you set man up the blood has to
be shot upward to the head, and this re-
quires much force yet in nine cases out
of ten, if a person faints and falls to the
floor, the first thing done is to run to
him and set him up, or place him on a
chair.
In apoplexy, as there is too much blood
in the head, every one can see that the
best position is to set man up, and the
blood then naturally tends downward, as
much so as water will come out of bot
tie when turned upside down, if the cork
is out.
If, then, man is asleep let him alone
for the face is natural.
If man has tainted, lay him on his
back, for his face is deadly pale.
If man is apoplectic, set him in a
chair, because the face is turgid, swol-
en-, livid with its excess of blood.
What is apoplexy? From the sudden
ness of the attack and the apparent cause.
lessness of it, the Greeks connected it in
their own minds with the idea of stroke
of lightning as coming from the AL
mighty hand; it literally means "astroke
from above" As instantaneous as tn,
hurling of thunderbolt in clear sky
there comes loss of sense, and feeling
aud thought and motion; the heart beat
the lungs play, but that is all and sool
they cease forever The Romans con
. sidcred it to be " thuhuuder struck" 0
"planet struck" as if it were of an un
earthly origin.
The essential nature OF apoplexy is al
unnatural amount Of blood in the brain
whatever sends too much blood to tn
brain, may cause apoplexy; whateve
keeps blood coming from the brair
/, dams it up, may cause apoplexy; that
the kind Of apoplexy that seems to com
t without any apparent adequate cause
e Tying cord tightly around the necl
l or holding the head downwards too lon
can bring on an attack Of apoplexy, b
t danming up the blood in the brain, an
+ keeping it from returning to the body.
7 a sudden mental emotion can send ,
n much blood to the brain; or too muc
k mental excitem mt can do the same thin,
+ 1t is the essential nature of all wines an
e spirits to send an increased amount
J. blood to the brain; hence alcohol is sal
) to stimulate the brain.
o The first effect of taking glass
/ wine or stronger form of alcohol, is
q send the blood there faster than commo
$ hence it quickens the circulation thi
q gives the red face it increases the acti
'ss Is ity of the brain, and it works faster, an
u so does the tongue. But as the bloc
70 goes to the brain faster than common,
L returns faster and no apparent harm r
Is suits. But suppose a man keeps {
= drinking, the blood is sent to the bra
u SO much faster, in much larger quantiti
10 that in order to make room for it the a
IL teries have to enlarge themselves; the
ie increase in size, and in doing SO pre-
rs against the more yielding faccid vein
u which carry the blood out of the brai
V and thus diminish their size, their pore
N The result being that the blood is not O
" ly carried to the arteries of the bra
faster than is natural or healthful, but
prevented from leavingit as fast as usus
- hence double set of causes of death a
= set in operation. Hence man ms
= = drink enough brandy or other spirits
- : few hours or even minutes to bring {
fatal attack Of apoplexy; this is lit
= rally being dead drunk.
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