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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![roused, and said slie felt better ; in the night, she be- came again extremely restless and incoherent, and died early in the morning. There had been a slight dis- charge of matter from the left ear early in the disease. Inspection.—There was slight effusion in the lateral ventricles; the brain in other respects was healthy. On the outer surface of the cerebellum there was a uni- form deposition of thick puriform matter ; it was most abundant on the left side. The pia mater of the ce- rebellum was highly vascular, the dura mater was healthy ; there was some purulent matter about the pituitary gland, and in the cavity of the ear, but there Avas no appearance of disease of the bones connected with the ear, or of the dura mater covering them. Uncombined meniniritis of the cerebellum seems to O be an uncommon affection. An interesting example of it is mentioned by Mr. Duglison in the London Medi- cal Repository. A boy aged 5, pale and delicate, after being slightly indisposed for four or five days, was seized in the night of 9th August with violent convul- sion. On the 10th, there Avas fever Avith delirium; a Amcaut look of the eye, and an evident imperfection of vision, Avhich ajipeared by his attempting to lay hold of objects that Avere presented to him, and missing them. Theie Avas dilated pupil, and slight strabismus. 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th, Symptoms gradually increasing ; 15th, coma; constant motion of the right arm and leg; the left appeared to be paral}’sed. In the night Avas seized Avith violent convulsion, AA’hich continued till his death; this took place on the morning of the Kith. The brain Avas healthy. There was a remarkable A'as- cularity on the tuber annulare, forming a thick Aveb of vessels. It was connected Avith the arachnoid coat of the right side of the cerebellum, AvhIch Avas thickened with some deposition of coagulable lymph. About sIa'. of fluid Avas found in the base of the skull, but not above a tea-spoonful in the ventricles. These cases Avill serve to illustrate the remarkable irei,’ teniion, arf, - •- ,. , fecf. In such ta-'es. o aiTtniiiioai memliraiic, we frc(]aei kiEileDiiTecoatiii of puiifonuil oiikpiaroaler. 5 llll.-.\ I).\!iGV.llOVS MOBIIK £■'!'£ wnifH SHOWS O.NLYINCRt,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0084.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
