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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![fected arm. In a case by Bouillaud, with partial hemi- plegia of the right side of long standing, with much derangement of speech and weakness of mind, there was a tumor the size of an egg in the anterior lobe of the left hemisphere, and another smaller in the middle lobe. They were internally cellular, and contained blood mixed with a filamentous substance, and a matter resembling concrete pus. § I]. —PARAPLEGIA. Symptoms. Case XXX VIII.—A man of 48—acute headach for a year followed by paraplegia. Five months after died sudden-. ly. Case XXXIX.—A man of 35—fixed pain in the occi- put extending down the neck— occasional vertigo and sickness. After five months hemiplegia of the left side and impaired vision. Hemiplegia diminished gradually, and after five or six months more, became liable to fits of stupor, which were pre- ceded by violent pain and ver- tigo, and occurred occasionally twenty times in a day—blind- ness of the right eye—failure of memory—then paraplegia, and a fortnight before his death palsy of the upper extremities also.—Duration of the com- plaint was a year and eight months. Morbid Appearances. Left lobe of the cerebellum was almost entirely scirrhous, of a pale flesh-colour, and seemed to be composed of nu- merous small corpuscles closely compacted, without any inter- stices, or any appearance of ves- sels. Morgagni, Ep. 62. On the surface of the pons Varolii, there were two trian- gular fleshy tumors nearly uni- ted by their apices. The base of the one extended into the right crus cerebri, that of the other into the medulla oblon- gata. The disease penetrated into the substance of the pons. There was much effusion under the arachnoid. Edin. Jour. XI. 470.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33278489_0474.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
