Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / by John Abercrombie.
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- 1845
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![counts, and to suppose that, in such cases, the fluid had really been contained in the ventricles, until I received, through my friend Dr. Frampton, the remarkable case by Mr. Ileadington, to be afterwards described, in which a cyst was found in the left ventricle containing sixteen ounces of fluid. The affections now briefly described seem to include the principal modifications of the organic diseases of the brain. Others, however, are met -with which do not properly belong to any of these classes, such as the stony tumor in a case to be quoted from Scheukius, the bloody tumor of Rochoux, and the real fungus baema- todes of the brain, of which there are some examples on record. Fungous protrusion of the cerebral substance itself, such as occurs after the operation of the trephine, is occasionally met without any such cause. A man mentioned by Dr. Donald Monro, had a pulsating tumor over the left eyebrow, pressure on which produced head- ach and giddiness. It increased in size, and after seven months he died lethargic. On inspection the tumor was found to arise from the anterior part of the left hemis- phere of the brain, and to have made its way through the frontal bone. It was the size of a China orange ; in its structure it resembled the medullary substance of the brain ; and it appeared to be covered by the dura mater.* When we endeavour to trace the leading symptoms connected with these various states of disease, we do not find any uniformit}', by which particular s}'inptoms can be distinctly referred to the various forms of the morbid affections; we can therefore attempt only a very general outline of the principal modifications ot the symptoms, which are connected with organic disease of the brain. They appear to be chiefly referable to the following beads. . Jjfll ivitlioilt 'Tiiipto®' ■ , gJoneT' sdI in iis ,1 j ilif n; rffular i. aotenillbeafienvarilsri in aw csK acnte ani lancin' anJitiisomtinies lefeneito crown (if lie W, 01 tk occip actfiffiraniedly a violent ikol k general, or it maybe referr 'lie id, as ibe occiput or '■ iolent paroiysms the pain' ieni to remain for a — .t !• « fonsic I tk siigiiest motion agw] ktttf remissions from isori as 5 also -.ispepsis [“““lenanced br ''Hlbefiu' ■®®«tban?'’l 'at Can ,>n,i hvln. s: I. The first class is distinguished by long-continued * Trans. Col. Pliy. vol i. /](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0340.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
