Researches on the pathology of the brain. Part III. On the organic diseases of the brain / by John Abercrombie.
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- [1819]
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Credit: Researches on the pathology of the brain. Part III. On the organic diseases of the brain / by John Abercrombie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Cases and Illustrations. Sect. I.—First Class.—Lon^ continued headacb, terminatin<y at last by coma, or by gradual exhaustion, or the patient dying of some other disease. 1. A boy, aged 7, had been for more than a year affected with 5»crofulous sores, and during that time had been in a declining state, without any urgent symptom, till six weeks before his death, when he began to complain of pain of the abdomen, and a fixed and severe pain of the forehead. His pulse was natural, but his appetite was bad, his tongue foul, and his sleep disturbed. The pain of the belly was removed by purgatives, but that of the forehead continued very se- vere, so as sometimes to occasion screaming. The usual remedies having been employed, the pain was much alleviated, and for a fort- night he made little complaint. The headach then returned with much severity, and, without any other change in the symptoms, he gradually sunk into coma, and died in three days. Dissection. Much fluid in the ventricles, and the substance of the brain in several places very soft and much broken down. A large firm white tumour ad- lifcred by its base to the middle of the falx at its lower part on the right side. It was nearly 6ve inches in circumference at the broadest part, and about an inch and a half in thickness. Internally it was uniform, wjiite, and firm, like coagulated albumen. It was ’imbed- ded in the substance of the right hemisphere where it had formed a depression for itself, but witliout any adhesion to the substance of brain. Its attachment to the falx was at the very lower part, and part of the tumour descended lower than the edge of the falx. There were two smaller tumours the size of hazel nuts, but of the same ap. pearance, attached to the falx, one at its posterior and the other at its anlcnor extremity, both on the right side ; and a fourth, also small, imbedded in the anterior lobe of the left hemisphere, and attached bv a slender filament to the pia mater. ^ S. A boy, aged 14, alfeeted with scrofulous disease of the knee was seized with severe headach, which continued without any other symptom for two months. He was then seized with convulsion followed by coma, ijnd died on the 8th day. Disscction.~.'6ciZ\ eflusioii both in the tentricles and on the surface of the brain Z mid the posterior ]Mt of the medulla oblongata, there was a tumour the size of a walnut, of a rose colour and a fatty consistence in- ersccted with red lilies, it was inclosed in a thin sac, and adhered](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21972308_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
