Depends on how it presented symptomatically - if the behavior was strange before hand, it might be called an apoplexy. But the term "Stroke" was also in vogue by then...let me do a little hunting in boxes and I'll get back to you.
Laura Kinsale's book Flowers in the Storm is regency era and the hero suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and can't speak etc and is basically locked up as insane. So maybe they wouldn't diagnose a stroke? It's a long time since I read the book so I can't remember how it was talked about. Not sure if she talks about any of her reference sources anywhere.
That's why I said symptoms presented count - if they don't look like they're "having an apoplexy" that is, thrashing a bit or otherwise acting odd ---the Regency favorite is turning red or purple in the face and sputtering without being able to speak and then falling over CRASH!--- it might not be diagnosed correctly.
First, googling "regency period medical information" turned up a British publication about Regency times http://www.amazon.co.uk/Georgette-Heyers-Regency-Jennifer-Kloester/dp/0434013293
The first review there is by Anne Woodley of the Janeites, who seems to be a Regency fan - and there is a Jane Austen center over here http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~awoodley/janeites.html which might be helpful?
Might post this somewhere on Baen's Bar, since I know there are Heyer fans over there and historians?
It may be a hair early in period, but have you looked at Lisa Picard's 'Dr Johnson's London. She covers EVERYTHING, from the rich to the poor, clothes, various jobs (what was involved in the cleaning of clothes is fascinating) medicine, including dentistry (don't read before having a root canal which I did) etc. In her 'Restoration London' she has a marvellous section about the problems involved in having privies emptied - sometimes accessed through a neighbors house.
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http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=9748
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Couple of thoughts - not much help, I'm afraid.
The first review there is by Anne Woodley of the Janeites, who seems to be a Regency fan - and there is a Jane Austen center over here http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~awoodley/janeites.html which might be helpful?
Might post this somewhere on Baen's Bar, since I know there are Heyer fans over there and historians?
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http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/545324
it includes a reference page and one of their references is:
Schiller F: Concepts of stroke before and after Virchow. Med Hist 14:115–131, 1970
since Virchow's work was mainly mid 19th century that reference may have descriptions from the time period you are looking for?
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