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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Credit: Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / by John Abercrombie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![sions, and, ojenerally, after some time, the memory is impaired. The cases of this class may be fatal in one of the attacks of convulsion, or by coma of some days continuance. The morbid appearances are very various. The most remarkable in the cases to be referred to were, tubercles in the cerebellum, an hydatid in the right hemisphere of the brain, induration of the pons Varolii or of the substance of the brain, and tumors and bony spiculie in various situations. An important variety of the disease occurs, in which the convulsion is confined to one side of the body. In one case of this kind, there was a tumor on the surface of the opposite hemisphere, and in another a portion of the opposite hemisphere was indurated; the former case was also remarkable from the long continuation of the disease, and from the weakness and diminution of size of the lower extre- mity of the affected side. Y. The fifth class leads our attention to a new set of symptoms, namely, the paralytic. These may occur in the form of hemiplegia, paraplegia, or paralysis of all the parts below the neck, and in some cases one limb only is aifected. The disease is distinguished from the ordinary paralytic cases, b}^ coming on more gradually ; one limb, perhaps, or part of a limb, being first weak, and the Aveakness extending very gradually, until it amounts to paralysis. In some cases the paralysis is ]>receded by violent pain in the limb. The speech is generally affected, and in many cases the memory; there may he fixed uneasiness in the head, or headach occurring in paroxysms. In one case, there Avas blind- ness of one eye ; in another, of both. In one, there oc- curred convulsion, but not till an ad\'anced period ; in another, epilepsy for more than a year. The inspections exhibit tumors or indurations, various!}' situated ; in the Ctuses of hemiplegia, on the opposite side of the brain ; in those of paraplegia, in the cerebellum or tuber annulare. It must, howeA’cr, be confessed, that the cases of this class, Avith paraplegia, are railier unsatis- factory from AA'ant of attention to the condition of the.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0344.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
