Clinical lectures on intra-cranial tumours. Lecture 2 / by Byrom Bramwell.

  • Byrom Bramwell
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[1881]
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    1881.] colcL I he rig-lit optic disc was very much redder than the left, but there was no oedema. There was evidently some intra-cranial lesion, but an exact diagnosis was not ventured upon, as it did not seem justified by the facts. A month after admission she took an epileptic fit, and before the House-surgeon, who was immediately summoned, could reach the ward, she died. On post-mortem exa¬ mination this beautiful little tumour, which I now show you, was found beneath the tentorium on the left side. It is, you will see, quite round, and about the size of a greengage plum. It springs bom the dura mater, and has, you will perceive, made a deep in¬ dentation in the left lateral lobe of the cerebellum. In addition to this tumour, a small haemorrhage, evidently of some weeks' duration, vms found in the extra-ventricular portion of the left corpus striatum. I he brain was otherwise normal. I he exact cause of death in this case was probably the sudden aiiest of the functions of the u vital centres” (for the heart and re¬ spiration) in the medulla. In some other fatal cases of this description a pi of use haemorrhage takes place into or around the tumour.1 (To be continued.) part &ctontr. BE VIEWS. Thet Utricular Glands of the Uterus, and the Glandular Organ of New formation which is developed during Pregnancy in the Uterus of the Mammalia, including the Human Species, etc., etc., etc. With a Quarto Atlas of fifteen Plates. Translated from the Italian under the direction of Henry 0. Marey, A.M., M.D. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, & Company: 1880. The work before us contains the various papers hitherto pub¬ lished by Professor Ercolani on the anatomy of the placenta, and places before the English reader the peculiar but interesting opin¬ ions of that author in an exceedingly fascinating and agreeable form. ° The fundamental ideas, which the author works out with much original research and argumentation, but also with no little repe¬ tition, may be formulated as two : 1st, That in all forms of placentation we have the co-aptation of two surfaces, the one of which, the maternal, is in its essence glandular, and’secretes the 1 A tumour which is not situated in the motor area may theoretically pro¬ duce convulsions of this description, either by causing reflex irritation of the convulsive centre m the medulla, or by producing profound alterations of the mtra-cranial circulation. VOL. xxvi.—NO. IX. n w