Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / by John Abercrombie.

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1845
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    Case XLVI A lady, aged C4—attacks of headach ; giddi- ness and imperfect vision, oc- curring at uncertain intervals ; afterwards mania ; at last, after five years, death with fever and delirium. Case XLVII A woman, aged (15—palsy of the right leg, of long standing; lancinating pains of the head, occurring at intervals: attacks of insensibi- lity ; death from gradual coma alter an apoplectic attack. and nearly cartilaginous struc- ture. The petrous portion of the bone on which the tumor rested was absorbed to the depth of half an inch. Author's Notes. Two small aneurisms, each about five-eighths of an inch in diameter, formed by dilatation of the internal carotid arteries, by the side of the cella Turcica, and containing lamina of co- agulated blood. Trans, of a Soc. II. 193. Extravasation of blood and ramollissement. The anterior part of the left hemisphere was very much hardened, and of a reddish colour. In the sub- stance of the right hemisphere there was an oval tumor of a reddish colour, partly hard and partly softened. lioslan. I liave formerly described a very important case re- ferable to this class, connected with a remarkable tumor formed by a deposition of new matter betwixt the lami- na} of the dura mater,—(see Case VI. page 44,) and there are many others on record exhibiting some varie- ties of the symptoms. In some we find constant un- easiness, with vertigo ; in others, transient apoplectic attacks, while the patient in the intervals enjoys tolerable health. In other cases again, there is a constant com- plaint of slight and habitual giddiness, commonly called weakness of the head, often accompanied by unsteadi- ness of tlie limbs. In a case of the first kind, by Zeder, he found numerous hydatids in the brain, one particu- larly, in the passage to the aqueduct of Silvius, and con- taining within it three smaller hydatids. The case