Three cases of tumor of the frontal lobe / by W. Gilman Thompson.
- William Gilman Thompson
- Date:
- [1890]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Three cases of tumor of the frontal lobe / by W. Gilman Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![r'' V SES OF TUMOR OF THE FRONTAL LOBE} The Medical News, May 31, 1890.] By W. GILMAN THOMPSON, M.D., VISITING PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESBYTERIAN AND NEW YOKK HOSPITALS. All cases of brain tumor are of special interest at present, since we are to-day in a position to consider not only their nature, progress, and probable site, but even the possibility of their removal by surgical interference. The cerebral hemispheres have been mapped out in the lower animals and in man, in regard to localized function, with a degree of accu- racy which, although far from absolute with many functions, is full of encouragement for further study, and which within a few years has caused a complete reconstruction of our theories of the operation of many mental processes. In our maps of the cerebral hemispheres there is still a large undetermined region, the pre-frontal, regarding the functions of which there is great obscurity. In animals irritation of the posterior part of the frontal lobe has been shown to produce movements of the muscles of the head and neck, and sometimes rotation of the eyes, but the experiments are less satisfactory here than when per- formed in other parts of the brain. Removal of the anterior part of the frontal lobes in dogs seems to 1 A paper read before the New York Clinical Society, April 25, 1890.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22313746_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
