Researches on the pathology of the brain. Part III. On the organic diseases of the brain / by John Abercrombie.
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![contact with it, and had extended considerably into its substance. Other parts of the cerebellum softened. Membranes of the spinal cord hard and thickened. Thoracic and abdominal viscera were sound. (Med. Repos. Vol. VIII. p. 398.) 35. A medical man, in the meridian of life, had been for a year liable to attacks of dyspepsia with headach. In October ]815, he had severe headach with fever, relieved by blood-letting. After this he had various uneasy feelings which he referred to his liver ; com- plete want ot digestion, headach, and frequent vomiting, which oc- curred chiefly in the morning, and general emaciation. In July 1816 he visited London and Cheltenham, at both which places the first practitioners ascribed his complaints to irregularity of the functions of the liver.’’ In August headach increased, nothing agreed with his stomach, almost every thing was vomited. After some time the pain was much relieved, and the prominent symptoms were the morning sickness and vomiting, with increasing emaciation. Bowels torpid, frequent eructations, and hiccup. In the end of September had twice a slight convulsion. Headach periodical. Mind entire. Conversation induced headach, and sometimes convulsion. 9th Oc- tober, died suddenly in convulsion. Dissection |iv. of fluid in the ventricles of the brain. On the inferior part of the left lobe of the cerebellum, there was an encysted tumour the size of a French wal- nut, besides a vesicular portion connected with it containing some yellow serum. The tumour was invested both by the pia mater and dura mater, and was attached by a small pedicle to the substance of the cerebellum where it had formed a depression in which it was im- bedded. On the corresponding part of the opposite lobe there was a small florid tumour the size of a large pea. The abdominal viscera were sound. (Med. Repos. Vol. VII. p. 92.) Many other cases are on record in which the only morbid appear- ances were m the head, though some of the most prominent symp- t^oms had been in the stomach. Some of these resembled what has been called the sick-headach ; others were chiedy distinguished by re- markable disturbance of the digestive functions. There is generally more or less headach, with various uneasy feelings in the head; but these symptoms are sometimes not urgent, and many of the cases have, iroug l a great part of their progress, been referred to the digestive A b“ V It*' “ symptomatic. A boy of. U, mo,itionc.l by Mangclus, laid loss of apnetilo, obtuse toll h’ 1^’, emaciation, then vomiting with^ more acute ’,h t ■‘1 .''‘'■■mission,. Three tumours were two nil*’ ’ ** r*^ '1 situation ol tlie corpora quadi igemina, and two others the siae ol wa nuts in the substance of the brainf A von, man mentioned m the -Itledieal Observation, and Inquiries, Vo^. vf had various complaint, in hi, head and bowel, which were ascribed to rms. ter some time he had attacks of stupor and forgetfulness, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21972308_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
