Description of two tumours adherent to the deep surface of the dura-mater / by John Cleland.

  • Cleland, John, 1835-1924.
Date:
[©1863?]
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Credit: Description of two tumours adherent to the deep surface of the dura-mater / by John Cleland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DESCRIPTION OF TWO TUMOURS ADHERENT TO THE DEEP SURFACE OF THE DURA-MATER. BY JOHN CLELAND, M.D., DEMONSTRATOR OF ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. The interest of the two tumours about to be described depends partly on their nature and situation, as nonvascular tumours developed entirely from the serous surface of the dura-mater, partly on their microscopic structure, and, it may be added, partly on their relation to Pacchionian corpuscles, structures the con- stancy of whose occurrence, together with their functional unimportance, and the limited extent of area in which they are found, has made them a puzzle to anatomists. Case I.—On removal of the brain from a subject in the anatomical rooms in the university, there was discovered a limited roundish tumour of firm consistency, about two inches long from before backwards, one and a half high, and one and three quarters broad, growing up from the middle line of the anterior fossa of the skull. It pressed more upon the left than the right hemisphere of the brain, so that although there was softening of the internal inferior portion of the right anterior lobe, the arachnoid and pia-mater covering that part were intact, while a considerable portion of the grey substance of the left anterior lobe had entirely disappeared by absorption, and the membranes corresponding to it were represented only by some shreds adherent to the surface of the tumour. The body was that of a female, who, according to the medical certificate was fifty years old, and had died of bronchitis.