The healing art and the claims of vivisection : a lecture delivered at Cambridge, March 10th, 1890 / by Edward Berdoe.

  • Berdoe, Edward, 1836-1916.
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1890
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Credit: The healing art and the claims of vivisection : a lecture delivered at Cambridge, March 10th, 1890 / by Edward Berdoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the Medical Press, of 26t]i January, 1887, we find some remarks of Dr. Goodart's on brain tumours and localisation. He says: For the last thirteen years I have been making j)ost mortem examinations at Guy's Hospital, and during that time, although I have come across many cases of cerebral tumour, I do not remember to have seen a single case in which the tumour was at the same time accessible and so localised as to be capable of successful surgical attack. It is very doubtful whether in the region of cerebral tumours other than inflammatory, surgery has any future worth mentioning before it. Whether the operations for the removal of brain tumours ought not in many cases rather to be termed surgical audacities, a consideration of some of the fatal cases attending them, may throw some light. Brain Surgery Necrology. When Patient, i operated Man, age Man C.H.,Boy 7 J.H., Man 38 J. B., Youth, 18 Nov. 25, 1884 Oct., 1886 Sept. 28, 1886 Dec. 17, 1886 Where. Hospital for Paralysis King's Coll. Hospital Queen's Hos- pital, Bir- mingham Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis Queen's-sq. By Whom. Mr. Godlee Sir J. Lister Mr. Bennett May Mr. Horsley Physician. Dr. Hughes Bennett Pro. Ferrier Dr.Suckling Pro. Ferrier Mr. Horsley Dr. Bastian Result. Died Dec. 23 of inflammation of the hrain. Died a week after the operation. Died from shock a few hours after the operation. Death in six months from re- cun-ence of tumour. Death nineteen hours after operation. On the debate in the House of Commons, which was the result of the motion to reduce the estimate by the amount