[Two kinds of apoplexy in the Colonial press].

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Gaceta medica de MexicoDelgado-García Guillermo, Estañol-Vidal Bruno, Góngora-Rivera Fernando, et al.Published 1/1/2017Last synced 6/7/2026Status: syncedPMID: 28474716

In 1787, three Colonial physicians quoted from Le Clerc (1726-1798) in the Gazeta de México. The French author lists six specific cases where bloodletting is often fatal, including two kinds of apoplexy: the serous and the lacteal. Both conditions are nowadays unknown to the majority of specialists in clinical neurology, and we therefore conducted an historical review of these conditions.

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