Excerpt from The New-Hampshire Journal of Medicine, Vol. 3: October, 1852, to October, 1853 Experience has taught us, that the principal danger to be apprehended in puncturing the head for cerebral dropsy, is the production Of fatal syncope, from the sudden removal of pressure from the brain and its appendages. I therefore had stimulants at hand, and determined to decant the water slowly, watching narrowly, in the mean time, its, effect on the pulse. 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.