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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![JlfoThid AppCOT(ll^C€S< side of the head also, and occa- the left hemisphere was rednc- sionally the neck—more severe ed to a soft pnipy state, and in the night. After six or was of a light brown colour, seven weeks blindness. At the Med. Tram.voX.x. Dr. Fowel. end of two months an apoplec- tic attack, and death in two days. In the other cases of this class the symptoms are nearly similar,—fixed pain in the head and gradual loss of sight,—the intellect being frequently atfected in the advanced stages, and frequently the speech impaired. A case has been already described, in which there was blindness of one eye and loss of speech, in connexion with a cyst containing albuminous matter in the pos- terior part of the left hemisphere—(See Case XCI. page ] 74.) In a case by Platerus, fatal by gradual wmsting, there wms a tumor larger than an egg, compressing the origin of the optic nerves. In one by Drelincurtius, there was a steatomatous tumor the size of a fist be- tween the brain and tbe cerebellum. In tins case there were both blindness and deafness, and it was fatal sud- denly by an apoplectic attack. In another by the same writer the pineal gland was enlarged to the size of an egg, and was of an earthy or stony structure. In a case by Bouillaud, with impaired sight and speech, and loss of the memory of names, there was a tumor the size of a large nut in the anterior part of the left hemisphere. SECTION III. Tiiied Class.—IIeadacii—affections of the SENSES AND CONVULSIONS. Symptoms. Case XV —A girl, aged 1 1—long liable to headach, with weakness of sight, and a pecu- Morbid Appearances. A tumor the size of a wal- nut rested on the cella Turcica, and compressed the junction of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0463.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
