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

  • Abercrombie, John, 1780-1844.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / By John Abercrombie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Symptoms. CasE XX.—A child of 4 years—unable to walk—articu- lation very imperfect—intelli- gence very deficient— degluti- tion very difficult, liquids swal- lowed often returning by the mouth and nose—difficult res- piration and frequent convul- sions—but was full in flesh— had been in this state about a year—died in six months more. Case XXI.—A woman, aged 23—After suppressed menstruation, violent headach, impaired vision, and after some time blindness. Repeated con- vulsive attacks; after one of which she lost her speech for two days. Intellect entire. Died comatose after four months. Cast XXI1.—A lady, aged 40, of a scrofulous habit—gra- dual failure of memory, sight and hearing: inarticulatespeech; epileptic paroxysms, at first once in the fortnight, afterwards more frequent—her gait feeble and tottering—died in six months. A year before her death, she had been much stun- ned by a fall down a stair. CasE XXIITI.—A man, aged 26—Severe headach ; most dis- tressing when lying on the left side; occurring in paroxysms with giddiness. After several Morbid Appearances. Corpora olivaria, crus cere- belli, and tubercula mammilla- ria in a state of cartilaginous hardness ; other parts sound. Author's Notes. On the surface of the right hemisphere there were three hardened spots, each an inch in diameter. They were the surfaces of tubercular masses, which extended into the me- dullary substance of the brain. There was a similar tubercle in the substance of the hemi- sphere, and one smaller in the surface of the left hemisphere. Slight effusion in the ventricles, Powel, Med. Trans. v. A tumor, the size of a small orange, lay on the pars petrosa of the left temporal bone, in- clining to the opposite side, and producing great depression in the substance of the brain; the seventh pair of nerves, and the branches of the fifth pair were compressed and stretched by the tumor. Internally it con- sisted of a soft uniform sub- stance resembling the cineri- tious matter of the brain. Communicated by Dr. Hay. A hard tumor two inches long, and an inch and a half broad, was firmly attached to thetentorium, and embedded in the posterior lobe of the left