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Show PARALYTIC APOPLEXY. Dr. Miller, of the Omaha llerald, in remarking upon the recent sudden death ol the late Rev. O. C. Darke, of thai city, who died of paralytic apo-jilesy, apo-jilesy, takes occasion to slate his opinion, contrary to the prevailing one, that the cause of apoplexy is not efluaiou of blood upon the brain. It depends on that mysterious nerve force that is generated in the brain itself, where, from causes which impede im-pede ita circulation, so to speak, it produces a sort ol" earthquake of the brain, just as electrical forces, impeded im-peded in their circulation through the earth cause explosions of its most ; rock-bound surfaces. The post mortem . appearances of the brain after death from apoplexy in which blood is found we have never believed to be the cause of apoplexy; they are the j crlcct. Hence our belief that bleeding: in these cases was always injurious and wrong, as causing an added shock to the system and a frequently fatal waste of the vital powers upon which recovery must depend. Our readers who are interested in this subject find in the case ot Air. Darke another instance added to several that have come under Omaha's observation, in which apoplexy apo-plexy has selected for its victim the sleuder, pale, spare man of nervous temperament, rather than the red faced, large-headed and heavy-necked apoplectic of popular fancy and delusions, delu-sions, signifying the truth, which statistics demonstrate that this class of persons constitute a large majority of the victims of apoplexy. |