Hemispherectomy in an adult patient: four figures. Carbon dust drawing by A.J. Arnott, 1960.

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<p>Hemispherectomy is described as follows in Wikipedia (7 December 2011): "Hemispherectomy is a very rare surgical procedure where one cerebral hemisphere (half of the brain) is removed or disabled. This procedure is used to treat a variety of seizure disorders where the source of the epilepsy is localized to a broad area of a single hemisphere of the brain. It is solely reserved for extreme cases in which the seizures have not responded to medications and other less invasive surgeries."</p>

Hemispherectomy in an adult patient: four figures. Carbon dust drawing by A.J. Arnott, 1960.

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