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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![months pain increased, with impaired vision and dilated pu- pil. Paroxysms of giddiness, with blindness; loss of speech, stiffmess of the limbs during the paroxysms ; then double vision ; violent pain in the neck, with convulsive paroxysms, af- fecting the muscles of the neck, and drawing the head violently backwards. Two months after this he had numbness and spas- modic motions of the superior extremities. After seven or eight months died . suddenly in a fit resembling epilepsy. Case X XIV.—A managed 35—Severe headach, and sense of weight in the head for two years ; copious epistaxis; loss of the sense of smell]; then frequent epileptic paroxysms for two years—died suddenly. Case XX V.—A man, (age not mentioned)—severe head- ach, followed by amaurosis and epileptic paroxysms, which oc- curred almost daily. He died in an apoplectic attack. 443 hemisphere. It contained an ounce of greenish pus, and the cerebral substance near it was softened. Where the tumor pressed against the occipital bone, the dura mater was obli- terated, and the bone rough. Two ounces of fluid in the ven- tricles. Clerk, Edin. Jour. VI. p. 275. Cerebral substance on the anterior part of the right he- misphere was hard and callous, and adhered intimately to the dura mater; on the left side some extravasated blood. Moryagni, Epis. 9. On the inner surface of the left parietal bone, there was an osseous spongy tumor, three inches bread, and more than an inch in thickness. Wepjer. . Case XX VI.—A man, aged 60—Epileptic for six years, An hydatid the size of a pigeon’s egg, in the posterior](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33278489_0467.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
