Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-11-20
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SsThere are cases where blows on the
head have benefited the brain, and
iproduced extraordinary. changes Ter
I iIiie~better. iiabi!ion Was almost an
Iidiot tiiI,..a the age OF twenty-six, he
fell ti0Wn Il STONE Si@ircase. ir;fct1r3t.
/ his skull, ana Was trePallnei. From
thai, {, InG3d dent he bscc:;iiie igeafUs. Doe
/ tor Pritchard mentions. case 0f three
brothers WHO We're all nearly idiots.
EOne OF them was injured on the head,
land fram that tiil3e he frightened up,
and is nov q SdcceSsaul bsfristef. Wal
lenstein; too, they say, was mere fool
Hti}l he fell cut of.a window, and 'aWoke
with enlarged "a capabilities: = patient
idf arsasyiu4n wss the victim of; many
IlGaluSions; Hg Vas paying OF the na-
itiehasl, iebt, going into partnership
with Baron Rothchild, and forming r
Hodge of, female Free Masons. One day
Ian epiiepfic patient, 'irritated at heinz
pefpiet ui!lly askeH 10 ,bnX iniagiilary
shares, gflN1e Efitil . -tIaiaenducUs blow
on the bridge ofthe .1bSt..' From that
time he improved rapidly, and ac-
knoWiedged tffat the i,iow had had a
SOLDERING eiiect, &I!l lad quite knocked
the llt;nSelS9 u0tzOi hiIn.
i There is no doubt that this was the
secret Of tina. cruel old remedy for
madness, the circulating swing men
toned. favoTabiy by physicians of the
last century. iisisfh0rrible swing was
q small box fixed upon pivot, and
worked by a windlaSs. The 'intiexi-
bfe'' maniac, or the maniac expecting
a paroxysm, was firmly strapped in a
sitting or recumbent posture. The box
was then whirled round at the average
velocity ola hundred revolutions q min
ute, and lis beneficial eiit ct was sup
posed to be heightened by reversing
the II oti0n every six or eight minutes,
and by stopping it occasionally with q
sudden jerk. The results OF this swing
(which occasionally brought on coDcus-
| sion oftne brain1 were profound and
protraoted sleep, intense per5piration,
mental exhaustion, and q not nnnatu-
| raj horror OF any recurrence 10 the same
remedy, which left a moral impression
| that acted as q permanent restraint.
/ That the results We're. often beneficial
we nave indisputa5ie evidence.
| The cases Gf Suspended consciousness
after brain injury are well worthy at
! ten zion. \ man who ;tNakeS out OF
sleep is conscious ola lapse OF time and
can generally even guess its duration;
but the man struck on the brain is often
Unconscious Of any lapse ~ man was
struck in the street and was after~aTd
delirious. He was unconscious after
the blow for fourteen days. He was
then, deliHOus and, i4al1iacal for ten
| weeks. Whenahe hocaIne. more trans
| iGtiitthey brought him to the asylum IN
azstralght waistca;st.- BessVO recover
ed, but7Whe11 he became conscious lie
had clean forgotten thAfpurteen days
trance, AID the ten weeksldelirium and
inania. At TIE battle of the Nile an
! English captain WasStruci: on the bead
| bya shot. and became unconscious. lie
| was taken home with the wounded,
aael-renaired in Greenwich Hospital
fifteen months dePtifed of stnse- anti.
/ speech. at tlse>-itl ofthat time an OPP
Grafton WAS performed, and tie brain
relieved from the pressure. Heinstant-.
| ly rose from his bed, and continued the
orders to tie sailors which had been 50
s,braptIy interrupted fifteen months be-
! fore. Dr. 4 berrronbie gives an ;,nalo-
gous CASE K lady was strucl, with ao-
oplexy wi,iie sitting Il. the whist table.
It.was Thursday evening When she fell
and she lay jn;p stnpor all Friday and
Saturday. On Sunday she suddenly
| fecoVsred' her consciOusDess, and her
FIRST words were, .'aW hat are tfumpS?"
| The clock work. had stopped at that
point, and now the peudnlum again
rurnf.lenceGA tpaN'ing. ~ 'a. "a -