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The mystery of the malignant brain

In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.

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  • Surgery: an assortment of surgical instruments, including a catheter, a probe and a spatula. Engraving with etching by Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Surgery: an assortment of surgical instruments, including a chisel, a spatula, tweezers and scalpels. Engraving with etching by Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Roman and Greek bronze spatulae some with probe-ends
  • Surgical instruments, spatulas and syringes. Engraving by E. Mitchell.
  • Surgical instruments, mainly spatulas and needles. Drawing with watercolour.
  • Surgical instruments, mainly cannulae and spatulas. Drawing with watercolour.
  • Surgical instruments used for cauterising, mainly spatulas. Drawing with watercolour.
  • Chinese woodcut: Instruments of petty surgery (4)
  • Plate LX. Instruments to operate on the trigeminal nerve
  • Plate 15. Surgical instruments (vesciovaginal fistula).
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