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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![his relatives, also sustained some injury of the head. This explanation, however, is merely conjectural. I have found nothing described by any writer pre- cisely similar to these remarkable affections. The case most nearly resembling Case VI. in the symptoms, is one described by Lancisi.* The attacks in this case con- sisted of paroxysms, which appeared to be a mixture of syncope and apoplexy; sometimes accompanied ■with hemiplegia, and sometimes 'with convulsion. The pia mater was found remarkably thickened and covered with a kind of ill-conditioned pus. Willis found a remark- able thickening of the dura mater at the base of the brain, in a young woman who had been liable to severe headach, aggravated at the menstrual period, and at these times accompanied by distortion of the neck to one side; she was likewise liable to attacks of vertigo and lipothymia, and died comatose. Similar cases are mentioned by Morgagni. A boy aged six, whose case is mentioned by Mr. Paisley,+ Avas seized with pain on a particular spot on the left side of the head, followed by droAvsiness, Avhich proved fatal on the 12th da}’, with the usual symptoms of hydrocephalus. On the part corresponding to the seat of the original pain, there Avas a tumour the size of a large hazel nut, formed by a se- paration of the liiminse of the dura mater, and the de- position between them of a bloody serous fluid. There Avere several similar tumours, but of smaller size, along the course of the longitudinal sinus on the left side. Be- sides the fluid, the tumours contained a number of small white bodies like Avorms; at the places Avhere the tumours were formed, the dura mater adhered very firmly to the membranes beneath. There Avas much effusion under the arachnoid and in the ventricles. • Lnncisi dc Subitaneis Morlibus. t Eclinburgli Medical Essays, vol. iii. f .[i'CllNO't SEtTIO.V 1' ffniftlTKI.A' Of niE -lEAf jiatek. I^TlAJi)liI!o.'( of (lie araclinoid lif k laitn hiA'i'tlifr, II is faiiiliictiiinptatiitei and as I nSy coiiW, it is [itoWUe fKissk weitdl)]' atten •eai their symptoms, The wronoalr hr a deposition of the ’ often re he,; '•Us f](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0072.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
