Excerpt from An Essay on the Nature, Causes, and Treatment of Water in the Brain The few observations offered in the fol lowing pages, are intended to controvert the doctrine of water in the brain being a Degreesdis tinct specificdisease, and to Oppose the prevalent Opinion of the proximate cause of the watery effusion being inflammation. It has been the author's endeavour to shew that this symptom, water in the brain, is an accidental occurrence, taking place in a great variety of diseases, and as the couse quence of numerous causes acting upon the cerebral upon a certain condition of those organs, constituting a state of predisposition merely, Without the presenceaof actual cerebral disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.