Proceedings at the eleventh anniversary meeting of the Hunterian Society, held on the 10th of February, 1830, with the report and list of officers and members.

Hunterian Society

Date:: 1830

Credit: Proceedings at the eleventh anniversary meeting of the Hunterian Society, held on the 10th of February, 1830, with the report and list of officers and members. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$The following epitome of the subjects brought under consideration, will attest the unity of the Society’s design and tendency: Diseases of the Head. A cyst in the brain—supposed to be hydatid—con¬ nected with caries of the inner table of the frontal bone. The patient was a young lady, and her chief suffering was in the frontal sinuses, with great discharges from the nostrils. Tumours in the brain, and abscesses from tubercle—an instance of. Encysted abscess in the brain, containing glairy pus— numerous vessels extending into the cyst—caries of the temporal bone—but without connexion between this and the abscess. The affection of the brain supposed to have arisen from disease of the ear. Another instance of abscess in the brain, the result of fracture of the cranium. In a third instance, the abscess had tubercles co¬ existent with it—and the progress of the disease was strongly marked, from the hardness and density of one tubercle, and the pulpiness of another, to the state of perfectly formed pus in the abscess.$