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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![CasE XVII.—A_ servant girl long subject to headach, which, in her 19th year, became very severe, and occurred pe- riodically, generally once in four weeks and sometimes oftener. In her 21st year, the headach became more violent and per- manent, with frequent vomiting, and occasional fits of insensi- bility. She had then attacks of double vision, and after- wards convulsions, which re- turned at first in five or six days, and afterwards every se- cond or third day. About three months after the commence- ment of the convulsions, she was one morning found dead in bed. CasE XVIII.—A woman, aged 19— Headach, vertigo, suf- fusion of the eyes; paroxysms, in which she fell down insensi- ble, without convulsion. They attacked her once in three weeks, and at each time there were two paroxysms at the dis- tance of twelve hours; after eight or nine months, these attacks increased in severity. She had then loss of hearing, sight, and smell, and her speech and deglutition were much im- paired. Soon after this died apoplectic. Cast XIX.—A man, aged 24,—severe headach—watch- fulness and imbecility of the head—blindness of the left eye, and after a month of the right. Convulsive paroxysms which continued to recur for six months ; they then ceased, and he died of pectoral complaints. 44] Throughout the substance of both hemispheres, and in the corpora striata, there were nu- merous tubercles the size of peas. They were externally hard, and internally contained a small cavity full of a thick greenish fluid. Twenty-one of them were collected—substance of the brain healthy—corpora striata considerably softened. Prof. Nasse, ut supra. Embedded in the substance of the right hemisphere, there was an hydatid, three inches long, and two broad, and very vascular. Brain in other re- spects healthy. Yelloly, Med. Chir. Trans. vol. ii. Extensive disease of the lungs; much effusion in the brain; in the substance of the left hemisphere, a tumor larger than an egg, weighing fourteen drams ; it was covered by a fine sac, and internally was white, firm and uniform, resembling coagulated albumen, but harder. Feliz Platerus, Lib. I, 108.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33278489_0465.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
