Apoplexy

a word the meaning of which it is not ert define; it is used in varying senses by 175 different consequence noted by a mind, sons gether other cla or quently causes artery blood plexy and (in applied in Thus apoplexy, variable, brain lo (or of with or though lo mains, tion to chronic that liable always that however, treatment absolute tion in MAD REP ORARIA, are most PODA, common non-sexual) which ally thallus back {Arocamy. one profe ed { 159 Aporosa. authorities, and much confusion has in resulted. In its original use it desimply a “stunning” or “stupor” produced intern a! disease. The old physicians recognised form of seizure in which disablement of body, or both suddenly supervened, usually in perwho had pa ed the prime of life, and alto a part from injury, poisoning, epilepsy, or known causes of such a condition. ‘To this of cases the term “stroke,” “apoplectic stroke,” simply “apoplexy ‘was applied. It was sub sed is covered that one of the commonest of such a seizure was the rupture of an within the brain, leading to effusion of into the ceretral substance. Hence apocame to signify an extravasation of blood, by an unfortunate extension of its meaning defiance of the etymology of the word) it was indiscriminately to any such extravasation, whatever part of the body it might occur. arose the terms cerebral apoplexy, pulmonary and the like. In cerebral apoplexy the symptoms are very differing according to the part of the which is affected. There is usually sudden of consciousne , accompanied by hemiplegia paralysis of one side of the body). The state stupor may become more and more pronounced, stertorous breathing, and may end in death; recovery of consciousne may take place, in that event lo of power of movement, of speech or some other defect usually re- (APHASIA, HEMIPLEGIA. ] Rupture of a cerebral artery is due to degeneraof the arterial coats; it is particularly liable occur in the subjects of the disease known as interstitial nephritis (q.v.). The old notions stout, short-necked persons are especially to apoplexy rests on no secure foundation. A patient who has had one apoplectic attack is liable to another. Popular pathology says the third “stroke” is always fatal; this is, by no means nece arily the case. The of a fit of apoplexy consists in securing rest with the head raised. The applicaof cold, the administration of purgatives, and some cases blood-letting are also of service. Aporosa, (without pores), the sub-order of in which the walls of the skeleton solid instead of being porous. It includes the highly developed of existing corals. [CORAL.] Aporrhais, the spout shell, a genus of GASTROof which one species, A. pes-pelecani, is round the English coast.