Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1881.

  • Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1883
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    Table 37—continued. ra¬ id of hen m la- ti s Post-Mortem Notes. Head and Spine. Thorax. Abdomen. Absolute Weights of Principal Organs in ounces avoirdupois. i . j Seal]) thick; calvaria very it. j dense and thick ; dura irs, ’ mater dense, thickened, * i closely adherent to cal¬ varia; a large portion re¬ maining over vertex at¬ tached to calvaria after removal ; arachnoid, pia mater, and cerebral sub¬ stance intensely congested with dark fluid blood ; cerebellum pons and me¬ dulla in a similar condition; vessels of brain filled with dark fluid blood. The base of the cranium presented a very rugged and irregular appearance. All the bony points and depressions and elevations corresponding to convolutions, standing out in undue prominence. The general aspect giving the idea that the base of the skull had been twisted round a centre correspond¬ ing to the Sella Turcica, the left lesser wing of sphenoid being bent down¬ wards and forwards, the right upwards and back¬ wards to the extent of nearly J-in. The left pos¬ terior clinoid process was nearly three times the size of its fellow, and extended forwards so as nearly to touch the posterior edge of lesser wing of sphenoid. Numerous old pleuritic i adhesions on left side ; both lungs intensely ; congested with dark j fluid blood ; pericar- I dium and heart nor¬ mal ; none of the cardiac cavities unduly distended ; aorta slightly atheromatous. All organs much congested ; other¬ wise healthy. : Right hemisphere 22 | Left „ - 21f Cerebellum - 5? Pons and medulla 1 l Total encephalon - 501- Right lung - 271 Left „ - 24f i Heart - - 14f ! Inver - - 481 I Spleen - - 71- Right kidney - 41 | Left „ - 4f Calvaria small and laterally contracted ; encephalon small and densely packed into skull ; convolutions not well defined super¬ ficially ; vessels of brain congested. Pleura; adherent on both sides ; lymph patches; left lung completely hepatized with excep¬ tion of small portion at anterior apex ; right lung condensed from pneumonic infiltration in its lower posterior two thirds ; heart small with, thick ventricular walls and small cavi¬ ties filled with clots partially fibrinous, Right hemisphere 181- Left „ - 17i Cerebellum - 3? Pons and medulla f Total encephalon 40* Right lung - 22? ! Left „ - 40? | Heart - 10? I Liver - - 48i i Spleen - - 5 j Right kidney - 4^ i Left „ - 5 Organs healthy