Excerpt from An Account of Chronic Hydrocephalus, and of a Case in Which Paracentesis Was Performed, and on the Statistics of This Operation: From the New York Journal of MedicineRokitansky states (path. Anatomy, Syd. Ed. Vol. Iii., p. 366) that, as a general rule, hydrocephalus is a symmetrical disease and that its chief seat, in all its forms, is the lateral ventricles. When it is found in the arachnoid cavity, according to MM. Billiet and Barthez Traite' des Maladies a'es Enfants), it is always the result of a hemorrhage from this serous membrane into its cavity for it is in this variety that the ¿uid is generally found bloody.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.