Pathological catalogue of the museum of Guy's Hospital : bones, joints, muscles, tendons, aponeuroses, bursae, etc. / revised with numerous additions from the original catalogue of Dr. Hodgkin by Samuel Wilks.

  • Wilks, Samuel, Sir, 1824-1911.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Pathological catalogue of the museum of Guy's Hospital : bones, joints, muscles, tendons, aponeuroses, bursae, etc. / revised with numerous additions from the original catalogue of Dr. Hodgkin by Samuel Wilks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    DISEASES AND INJURIES OF THE BONES. SPINE* 1000. Skeleton of a man affected from infancy with chronic hydrocephalus. It is of moderate stature, but the bones are slender. The cranium measures 33 inches in circum- ference ; and from the articulation of the lower jaw, across the vertex to the opposite side, 21 inches. The numerous ossa triquetra at the sides and top of the head are very remarkable. Case of James Cardinal, aged 29, who died under Sh* A. Cooper’s care in Guy’s Hospital, in 1824. He was horn at Coggleshall, Essex, in 1795, when his head was a very little larger than natural; but in a fortnight’s time it began to increase, and gradually grew untO, at five years of age, his mother thought it was as large as at the present time. He was unable to walk until 6 years old, but went to school and learned to read and write. It was said if a candle was placed near him, his head was semitransparent. He continued in tolerable health until the age of 23, when he began to have fits, and for these he came to the hospital. He presented a very remarkable appearance, the head being about twice its size in proportion to his body; he was rather under the average stature, and was childish in his manners, but otherwise his mental faculties were moderately developed. He died at last of pulmonary affection. Upon opening the head, the brain was found lying at the base of the skull, and between the membranes about 6-7 pints of fluid ; also T\dthin the ventricles about 1 pint. It appeared, from an opening in the corpus callosum, as if the fluid had originally been within the ventricles, but had burst out and compressed the brain do^vuwards. The whole skull was able to contain ten pints of fluid. 1. Note-Book, p. 72; and Dr. Bright’s published Medical Reports. * The first few specimens, constituting entire skeletons, are from necessity placed out of their proper order.