Three cases of tumor of the frontal lobe / by W. Gilman Thompson.

  • Thompson, W. Gilman (William Gilman), 1856-1927.
Date:
[1890]
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Credit: Three cases of tumor of the frontal lobe / by W. Gilman Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    s of the bromides than by anything else. He was also given potassium iodide, but he felt so well in the intervals between his attacks, that it was difficult to enforce any plan of treatment, and he only reported to me when alarmed by some unusually vigorous seizure. If I had been certain of the existence of a gummy or other tumor, I should have located it much further back, in the motor area. Case II.—C. T., negress, aged thirty years; mar- ried ; housewife. The patient was well up to six years before admission. She denies alcoholic or syphilitic history, and a most careful examination fails to reveal any of the ordinary lesions or symp toms of the latter, excepting very slight enlargement of the cervical glands. Her several children died young. About six years ago the patient had for the first time an epileptiform convulsion which came sud- denly, without apparent exciting cause. Similar at- tacks have since recurred at irregular intervals, grad ually becoming more and more frequent, at first twice a week, and of late more often. The day before ad- mission she had eight attacks. The seizures after- ward recurred every fifteen or twenty minutes. At first the convulsions were general and involved all the limbs and body equally. Recently the right leg and arm have been more affected, and these have shown a certain amount of paralysis between the convulsions. Otherwise the patient’s physical condition between the seizures was normal and she was going about until the time of admission, but she was rather dull and foolish mentally for a long time previously. On admission the attacks commenced on the right side of the body, and the head turned toward the right. Respiration was suspended during the seizures from spasm of the diaphragm. The convulsions, though very violent, did not last over