Hydrocephalus re-considered and its relations to inflammation and irritation of the brain defined : with cases from hospital and private practice in exemplification of its pathology, prevention, and successful treatment / by Thomas Weeden Cooke.

Date:
1850
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Credit: Hydrocephalus re-considered and its relations to inflammation and irritation of the brain defined : with cases from hospital and private practice in exemplification of its pathology, prevention, and successful treatment / by Thomas Weeden Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    then would I avail myself of the large collection of post-mortem examinations presented to the world by Gerhard, Ahercrombie, Schweningen, Bennett, Cheyne, Golis, and numerous others. This important distinction never having been at- tempted, the value of these records, as guides to the just definition and treatment of these diseases, is painfully small, and much valuable time has, I fear, been mis-spent. Out of thirty-six cases of asthenic Cerebral Irritation which I have carefully noted, eight only have died, and in each case I have been enabled to make a careful examination into the condition of all the organs of the body. In six I found more or less effused fluid distending the skull itself; in one case the brain swimming almost in the limpid serum, whilst in others the ventricles only were distended. The quantity varied from half-an-ounce to six ounces. In two cases there was no effused fluid. The membranes covering the brain, were in all, more or less studded with whitish, opaque, granular masses; sometimes clustered, and at other times dotted about singly; the deposit being most remarkable in the immediate neighbourhood of the sinuses. The arachnoid and pia mater were in five cases