On the fourth day, she was affected with syncope and bilious vomiting, accompanied by extreme prostration.
Great depression frequently accompanies even the first stages of this disease, indicated by a want of tone in the pulse, by an extremely listless manner, and sometimes by a tendency to syncope (Case I).
Cardiac stimulants should not be given, except when faintness or syncope has occurred, and if strychnin is used, it should be in small closes.
The disease is characterized by bradycardia and cerebral attacks, either syncope or pseudo-apoplectic or convulsive attacks.
Other patients who faint or have attacks of syncope should remain at rest on a couch or bed for some hours.
The attacks of syncope are doubtless due to anemia of the medulla, because of the infrequent ventricular contractions.
In the second place, competition to exhaustion, to vomiting, faintness, and evensyncope is absolutely inexcusable.
This last form may be due to syncope (111, a) of the radical #a#.
This verse is a trochaic tetrameter acatalectic, withsyncope and protraction in the seventh foot.
It cannot, however, be denied that syncope may accompany this feeling of suffocation.
The ploughman revived, but Justin's syncope still lasted, and his eyeballs disappeared in the pale sclerotics like blue flowers in milk.
Syncope is also not infrequently produced by the patient's sitting up too soon.
Copious hemorrhage from the stomach and nose may also induce syncope of alarming and even fatal severity.
Occasionally almost instantaneous death occurs from syncope induced by some muscular exertion, as standing up or even rising in bed.
It is not only during the pyrexia that this precaution must be enforced; we meet with extreme debility during the intermission in some cases, and syncope has followed exertions made at that period as well as at others.
The records of every epidemic present instances of sudden death from cardiac syncopefollowing trifling exertions.
Verbs which suffer a syncope in the Infinitive, suffer a like syncope in the Pret.
If the nominative suffered a syncope in forming the genitive, or if the last vowel of the genitive is broad, the dative is like the nominative; as, buidheann f.
Some Verbs suffer a syncope in the penult syllable, and are commonly used in their contracted form; as, Imper.
The doctors tell us that insyncope The victim should be laid down, not held up.
But if she had a syncope and fell She must have bruised her body or her head.
During an operation the onset of syncope is often recognised by the cessation of oozing from the divided vessels before the general symptoms become manifest.
Syncope is the result of a suddenly produced anæmia of the brain from temporary weakening or arrest of the heart's action.
The degree of shock is variable, but sudden syncope frequently results from severe bruises of the testicle, abdomen, or head, and occasionally marked nervous depression follows these injuries.
The occurrence of syncope or of profound shock also helps to stop bleeding by reducing the force of the heart's action.
Syncope sometimes occurs also during the administration of a general anæsthetic, especially if there is a tendency to sickness and the patient is not completely under.
Death may take place from gradual failure of the heart's action or from syncope during some slight exertion.
The brief, dizzy syncopewhich ensues during the frantic bundling of the two sexes he had never experienced, though he yearned for it, during moments of weakness.
The sympathetic effect that this flower can create is illustrated by Capellini, who saw a lady fall into a syncope on perceiving a rose in a girl's bosom, although it turned out to be an artificial one.
I lately dined in company with a gentleman who was seized with symptoms of syncope whenever a surgical operation or an accident was spoken of.
Depaul mentions a woman who fell in a public street and was delivered of a living child during a syncope which lasted four hours.
Raynaud suggested that the local syncope was produced by contraction of the vessels; the asphyxia is probably caused by a dilatation of the capillaries and venules, with persistence of the spasm of the arterioles.
Fatal hemorrhage had been avoided in this case by the formation of coagulum in the wound during the syncopeimmediately following the stab, possibly aided by extended exposure to cold.
Postmortem examination revealed everything normal, and death must have been caused by syncope following violent pain.
The syncopethus produced is to be carefully differentiated from the syncope caused psychically by excitement or fear of the application of electricity.
Laennec considered the case one of prolonged syncope from pressure on carotids.
The amount of hemorrhage required to produce syncope varies under a variety of circumstances.
We can judge, too, from its position, whether it has acted mechanically to interfere with a vital function, and has thus caused death, or whether the latter was due to syncope from the quantity lost.
The more protected the air-passages are from pressure the greater part will coma or syncope have in the cause of death.
Some observers have attributed death to syncope or asthenia by the shock produced, in the sudden effect of the cold upon the sympathetic nervous system inducing heart failure.
To be sure, trained tank performers remain under water longer than two minutes, and exceptional instances occur of recovery after twenty minutes’ submersion in individuals in a state of syncope or with catalepsy.
A hemorrhage may have ceased from partial syncope and return with a stronger heart action due perhaps to the administration of alcohol.
Dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, nausea, vomiting, and syncope are readily caused by even slight currents.
Thus we may have death from syncope due to hemorrhage into the peritoneal cavity or, after contusions, into the intercellular spaces and the cavity due to the blow, into which several pounds of blood may be extravasated.
The condition of the lungs and heart varies according to whether death is due to syncope or asphyxia.
St. Xavier, it is well known, brought the dead to life again, and even if we assume that they lay only in syncope and had not yet really died, the recovery is scarcely less striking.
When an attack of syncope takes place no treatment is of any avail.
An attack of syncope often causes, at least temporarily, cessation of the hemorrhage.
This mode, he thinks, removes the danger of syncope and makes the bandage needless.
Electricity is sometimes employed to overcome the spasm; but intra-oesophageal electrization of every kind is risky from the danger of exciting fatalsyncope from irritation of the pneumogastric nerve.
Attacks ofsyncope appear, and in fatal cases--which are not common--death results from asthenia.
If syncope threatens, ammonia or a little ether may be inhaled, or ether may be given hypodermically.
Syncope may be distinguished from apoplexy by the absence of stertorous breathing and lividity of the visible mucous membranes.
Syncope is characterized by a decrease or temporary suspension of the action of the heart and respiration, with partial or total loss of consciousness.
When heart clot, or thrombus, exists in the right side, the return of blood from the body and the aeration in the lungs is impeded, and if death occurs, it is owing to syncope rather than to strangulation in pulmonary respiration.
This is due to the fact that the primary syncope arrests the hæmorrhage, which returns during the subsequent reaction, or on the occurrence of any excitement.
Syncope has been known to be suddenly produced in some cases of the inhalation of Ether and Chloroform.
Some medicines may cause syncope by an action upon the brain.
This revulsive action, when carried to an extreme, so powerfully impresses the nervous system, that it puts a stop to all other actions, and produces Syncope or Death.
This singular syncope of the waters lasted all the day, and night closed over the strange scene.
What has been said about syncope applies also to the relative spheres of elision and hiatus.
After several days of high fever, and a fit of syncope lasting two hours, during which her life was despaired of, Her Majesty was found to be suffering from small-pox, aggravated by a bad chill.
And this same accident may prove a salvation in syncopeor coma from shock or protracted illness.
Miller was of opinion that she died of syncope or failure of the heart’s action.
Heart-failure had produced a species of syncope resembling death that deceived even experts.
The fatigue of the journey induced an attack of syncope on her arrival.
The deaths attributed to syncope in the Registrar-General’s reports for England and Wales during the last six years are:-- MALES.
It is syncope where the heart fails first; asphyxia where the lungs are first to cease; coma when the brain is first at fault.
In some cases syncope has been followed by death; in others serious phlegmons, complicated by septicæmia, supervene.
