Proceedings at the Twenty-First Anniversary Meeting of the Hunterian Society, held on the 12th February, 1840 : with the report and list of officers and members.

  • Hunterian Society.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Proceedings at the Twenty-First Anniversary Meeting of the Hunterian Society, held on the 12th February, 1840 : with the report and list of officers and members. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Epilepsy—fatal case of, succeeding an attack of phrenitis, in a young lady, who at 11 years of age had received a blow on the head; on examination, the bones of the skull were remarkably thick and consolidated, with softening of the brain, where pressed on by such addition of substance—the sides of the head not symmetrical. — Another case instanced with a similar condition of the cranium, but in which the substance of the brain was firm, together wTith evi- dence of chronic arachnitis having existed. The symptoms in this instance, were clonic spasms of the upper extremities, with pain in the head, and sleeplessness: moral controul exercised some in- fluence over these, but mental excitement followed by stupor, and dilated pupils, eventually destroyed life in three or four days. Hydatid in ventricle of the Brain — case referred to in a lad 11 years of age. Symptoms, dimness and sub- sequent loss of vision, to which chorea, paraplegia and death, succeeded. Cerebral disease — case of, in a lady, all her life the sub- ject of intense head-ache, to which paralysis and severe tetanic spasms gradually and slowly suc- ceeded. The case was remarkable from the severity of the pain in the limbs, which were insensible from without; and from the spasmodic actions in muscles which were incapable of voluntary motion.