The mental symptoms of brain disease : an aid to the surgical treatment of insanity, due to injury, haemorrhage, tumours, and other circumscribed lesions of the brain / by Bernard Hollander.

  • Hollander, Bernard, 1864-1934.
Date:
1910
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Credit: The mental symptoms of brain disease : an aid to the surgical treatment of insanity, due to injury, haemorrhage, tumours, and other circumscribed lesions of the brain / by Bernard Hollander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10th Case. George W. Cale {New York Medical Journal, 1895):— A carpenter, aged 26, always healthy until receiv- ing a blow on the parietal bone, to the left of the median line, about midway between the fissure of Eolando and the external occipital protuberance. Four years after, he complained of pain at the spot, and became melancholic, sullen, and morose. The depressed bone was elevated. On recovery he was at once cheerful, and undertook again a responsible position. 11th Case. Boubila and Pantaloni {Gazette des hdpitaux, 1892):— Case of a patient suffering from hallucinations of sight and tendency to suicide, which was cured after lifting up a piece of depressed bone in the posterior parietal region, evidently the result of an injury. 12 th Case. Dr. Fenoglio {Bologna Bivista Clinica, 1887):— Similar case. Operation. Complete mental re- covery. An interesting observation was made in this case, namely, that the symptoms were reproducible by pressure over the trephine hole. 13th Case. The same author {Archiv. di psichiatria, 1884):— A young farmer, aged 19, suffered a depressed fracture of the right parietal bone situated between