The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-12-07
SLEEP, FA1Nr1Na, ApropLExY.


and his lungs play but he is without
sense. and you can easily wake HIM up.
1t a person ..'faints," be too is without
sense, bat he has no pulse and does not
breathe. ii 80
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 il natural.
In a fainting fit. it has the pallor OF
death. ~
In.appoplexy, it is swollen. turEd and
fairly livld.
If a man is asleep let him alone, ma
ture will wake him up as soon as he has
got sleep enough. al -
When a person faints. all that is need
ed is to lay him down fat!on the floor and
he will come to in double quick time.
He tainted because the heart missed a
beat, failed for an instant, tailed 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
hack. it does not require much force of
| the heart to send the blood on a level to
the head but if you set a man mp, the
blood has to be shot upward to the head.
and this requires much more force; yet
| 10 nine cases out of ten if a person faints
and falls on the aoor, the first thing done
| is to run to him and set hi. up. or place
him on chair. IN a8aJ s-at e-9.r..f.rl =.
In appolexy. as there is to much blood
in the head, every one can see that the
best position is to set a man up, and the
blood naturally tends downward. as much
so as water will come out of bottle
when turned upside down, If the cork is
out. y .--t ..-.
If, then, a man is merely asleep, lie,
him alone, for the face is natural.
If man has tainted, lay him fat, or
his back. for his face is deadly pale.
+ IF man is apoplectic, set him in {
chair, because the face isturgid, swollen
livid, with it's excess of blood.
What is apoplexy? From the sudden
ness of the attack and the apparen
causelessness of it, the Greeks counectcc
it in their own minds with the idea of ;
stroke of lightning as coming from tn,
Almighty hand it literary means, 80
stroke from above" AS instantaneou
as the hurting OF a ,thunderbolt in clca
sky. there comes loss Of sense. and feel
ing, and thought, and motion the hear
4, beats, the lungs play, but that is all, ant
soon they cease foreve-. The Roman
considered the person ia be ';'thunde
struck" or planet struck, . as if it wer
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; that is th
kind Of apoplexy which seems to com
without any apparent adequate cause
Tying cord tightly around the neck, o
holding the head downwards too long
can bring on an attack of apoplexy, b.
damming up the hood in the brain, ant
keeping it from returning to the body,
4 sudden mental emotion can send to,
much blood to the brain or to too grea
mental excitement does the same thing
1t Is the Essential! nature of all wines ane
spirits to send an increased amount o
blood TO the brain hence alcohol is sale
to stimulate the brain. .-u
The first effect of taking glass of wine
or stronger form of alcohol, is to send the
blood there faster than common, hence i
qulckens the circulation; that gives tn,
red face ii increases the activity Of the
brain, and it work, faster, and so doe
tine tongue. But as the blood goes t
brain faster than common, it returne
faster, and no special permanent harm
results. But SUPPOSE man keeps OF
| drinking, the blood is sent to the brain
so much faster; l.: such larger quantities
that in order to m Ike room for it, the ar
teries have to enlarge themselves they
increase In size, and in doing so, press
against the more yielding haccid veins
which carry the blood out of the brain
and thus diminish their size, their pores
the result being. that the blood is not on,
ly carried to tn, arteries ofthe braiu
faster than is natural or heathful, but i,
is prevented from leaving it as fast As
usual ; hence, double set of cause OF
man may drink enough brandy or other
spirits in few hours or even minutes to
| bring on an fatal attack of apoplexy; this
is literally being dead drunk. -HaE S
Journal of Health.