Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / by John Abercrombie.
- Date:
- 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. attack occurred, from which he did not recover; he was now confined to bed with severe headach, giddiness, loss of me- mory, and incoherence; and aliout the 12th day had severe pain and partial palsy of the left leg and arm. He had then general convulsion, followed by perfect hemiplegia and coma, and died about the 23d day of his confinement. Case XLIV.—A man, aged 36—after a wound in the head, which healed readily, had con- stant headach for five years and a half; then fits of stupor, which came on at uncertain intervals, sometimes twice a week, sometimes once a fort- night. They generally lasted about an hour and a half, and he had warning of their ap- proach so as to lay himself down. In the intervals all the functions were natural. After seven or eight months, the par- oxysms became more frequent, and he died suddenly in one of them. Case XIjV. — A woman, aged 28, severe headach, con- stant vertigo, nausea, occasional vomiting, frequent rigors, pain and deafness of the left ear, and the left eye somewhat affected. After several months the head- ach increased, with occasional paroxysms of coma, and she died at last rather suddenly, having lieen for a day or two affected with extensive erysipe- las of the head and face. Morbid Appearances. inferior cornua, and the margin of the pes hippocampi was at- tached to it. The pia mater lining the ventricle at this place was very vascular. Communicated by Dr. Hunter. .4 scrofulous ttiinor, larger than a hen’s egg, in the middle of the left hemisphere of the brain, extending in depth to nearly on a line with the cor- pus callosum. It seemed to be merely a part of the brain in an indurated state. A piece of bone, the size of the finger-nail, was attached to the left side of the longitudinal sinus. The veins on the left hemisphere were more distended with blood than those on the right. Med. Chir. Trans. IV^. 188. A remarkable tumor under the base of the brain on the left side, resting on the petrous por- tion of the tem])oral bone. It consisted of three portions; the anterior was the size of an egg, of a pink colour, and composed of a spungy vascular substance, like the texture of the placenta, interspersed with small cysts, containinga ptiriform fluid ; the posterior portion was half the size of the former, and of simi- lar structure, hut firmer ; the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0479.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
