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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![Symptoms. eructations, and hiccup. In the end of September had twice a slight convulsion. Headach then periodical—mind entire, but conversation induced head- ach, and sometimes convulsion. October y, died suddenly in convulsion. Case XLII An officer, aged 27—constant nausea and frequent vomiting — slight thickening of the pericranium —headach and general indispo- sition. After a considerable time, numbness of the right side. Five weeks after this, he died suddenly in the night. Morbid Appearances. The dura mater covering the cerebellum at its posterior and inferior part was thickened and cartilaginous, and the diseased state had extended considerably into the substance of the cere- bellum, where it lay in contact with it. Other parts of the cerebellum softened,membranes of the spinal cord hard and thickened. Thoracic and ab- dominal vi.scera sound. Med. Repos, vol. viii. ]\Tany other cases are on record, in ■which the only morbid appearances were in the head, though some of the most prominent symptoms had been in the stomach. Some of these resemble what has been called sick head- ach, while others are chiefly distinguished by remarkable disturbance of the digestive functions. There is gene- rally more or less headach, Avith various uneasy feelings in the head ; but these symptoms are sometimes not urgent, so that many of the cases have, through a great part of their progress, been referred to the digestive organs, the symptoms in the head being considered as symptomatic. A boy, aged 14, mentioned by Mangetus, had loss of appetite, obtuse headach, debility and ema- ciation ; then vomiting, with more acute headach, and he died after various intermissions. Three tumors were found in the brain, one in the situation of the corpora quadrigemina, and two others the size of walnuts in the substance of the brain. A young man, mentioned in the Medical Observations and Inquiries, vol. vi. had](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0477.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
