APOPLEXY

sudden unconsciousne , without any e ential change in the pulse and respiration, resulting from cerebral hemorrhage, embolism, or thrombosis. The unconsciousne must be distinguished from that due to epilepsy, syncope, uremia, alcoholic or narcotic poisoning. The onset of the attack may sometimes be le sudden, and accompanied by headache, giddine , confusion of the mind, or lo of power in a limb. The person may sink to coma and death, or he may recover after a short or a prolonged time, a certain degree of paralysis usually remaining, which most frequently affects one side of the body.