Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others].

Date:
1905
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Credit: Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    movements, slight paresis of right abducens, and vasomotor and cardiac disturbances. Severe headache, nausea, vomiting, and optic neuritis were also present. This patient was a married woman, 30 years of age, five of whose maternal relatives had died of cancer. Four years before coming under ob- servation the ossicles of her left ear were re- moved, on account of an annoying tinnitus, but without the desired result. About one year later she began to suffer from severe headache. The next year slight optic neuritis was observed in both eyes, the neuritis going on to atrophy and blindness, which was complete in less than two years. Headache, nausea, vomiting, and depres- sion were recurring symptoms, and taste and smell were impaired. During two or three years she was treated for various complaints as anemia and neurasthenia, and both Graves’s disease and interstitial nephritis were suspected. About six months before coming under observation she had a convulsion with loss of consciousness, this being followed by several others of a similar kind. The patient was having at somewhat frequent intervals attacks beginning with pain in the head, which was referred to the forehead and eyes. In these she became nauseated and then vomited, becoming pale or even cyanosed, with loss of consciousness. ‘The vomiting was preceded or accompanied by marked facial monospasm, in