American Journal of Psychiatry (Volume 27)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mally thin; the canal of the right one was considerably enlarged. The treatment pursued in the other cases was substantially the same as in the one we have presented, except the abstraction of blood. In one of them improvement was rapid and satisfactory: in the other there was a gradual decline, which at the time of writing made the prognosis unfavorable. Tinct. digitalis was given in all these cases to the extent of fifteen drops every four hours, and cintinued till vomiting supervened. Ice was also applied. This treatment seems to be the one best adapted to meet the indications presented, and promise3 the best chances for recovery or material improvement. HEMATOMA AURIS. BY E. B. HUN, M. D. Haematoma Auris, or sanguineous tumor of the external ear, has been for a long time observed as a frequent concomitant of insanity; and various authors have discussed the questions relative to the true nature of this phenomenon, both as regards its pathology and its relation to those conditions of the nervous system which accompany mental derangement. M. Ferrus, in France, and Bird, in Germany, called attention to it in 1838, since which time it has been studied by MM. Belhomme, Lunier, Renaudin, and others, and in 1848, Dr. Franz Fisher, physician to the Illenau Asylum, published quite a lengthy article upon the subject. Since my connection with the New York State Lunatic Asylum, I have had frequent opportunities to see cases of hsematorna, and I propose in this paper topresent the subject under consideration from a clinical point of view, and deduce my conclusions from original observations, and from the history of such cases as I have been able to find recorded in the books of the Asylum. In a few cases which I have seen and examined during life, opportunities have been ...