Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / By John Abercrombie.
- John Abercrombie
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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. brows contracted—the hands clenched—and the head im- movable in one position—un- able to bear the least noise, or to move amuscle. After two P. M. the symptoms gradually remitted—she took food, and about nine fellasleep, and slept till two, when the paroxysm recurred. As the disease ad- vanced, the interval became shorter, and for a fortnight be- fore her death the pain was constant—senses entire to the last—palsy of the left leg for three days before death—du- ration of the case fourteen months. CasE I].—A man, aged 40 —violent pain in the back of the head, ceasing at times, but returning, and accompanied with vomiting, and always referred to the same spot, much relieved at different times by bleeding and by salivation, but always re- curred with great violence, and was referred to a single point at the junction of the temporal and occipital bones—frequent vomiting — impaired vision. Died suddenly in one of the at- tacks of pain—duration of the complaint about a year. Case II].—A young man of 20—violent pain of the fore- head ;—it occurred in paroxysms which generally continued four days, and were followed by in- tervals of partial relief of about the same duration. After two years died suddenly in the night from convulsion. ’ Morbid Appearances. In the left lobe of the cere- bellum, a tumor an inch long and ten lines in breadth, com- posed of about nine alternate layers of a chalky matter, fluid albumen, and a very firm mat- ter with the properties of albu- men, which grated under the knife. It was enclosed in a cavity which also contained a tough glutinous matter, and the surrounding substance was like rancid bacon. Prof. Nasse App. to Germ. Trans. of Dr. Abercrombie’s Papers on the Brain. A tumor the size of a pi- geon’s egg, hard in the centre, and externally soft, in the sub- stance of the cerebellum, other parts healthy. Planque Biblioth. III. 348.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33278489_0458.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
