Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy : adapted to the elements of M. Andral, and to the Cyclopaedia of practical medicine, being a complete series of coloured lithographic drawings from originals by the author; with descriptions and summary allusions to cases, symptoms, treatment, &c. ... / by J. Hope.

Date:
1834
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Credit: Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy : adapted to the elements of M. Andral, and to the Cyclopaedia of practical medicine, being a complete series of coloured lithographic drawings from originals by the author; with descriptions and summary allusions to cases, symptoms, treatment, &c. ... / by J. Hope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sectio.—The brain presented the extravasation seen in the Fig. situated on the left side of the mesial line, which is pushed aside to the right. The arteries at the base of the brain were of opake yellow and green colour, and very lacerable. Left ventricle of heart, hypertroplious, being three fourths of an inch thick. Left kidney contained pus ; bladder was ulcerated from chronic inflammation. Remark.—Having the pleasure of M. Foville’s acquaintance, I requested his explanation of the circumstance that opposite sides of the face and the body were paralyzed, a circumstance of which this is by no means a solitary instance. He replied that the effusion on the left side of the mesial line of the pons varolii compressed the origin of the 5th nerves of the opposite side. This explanation is ingenious, and apparently correct. Fig. 253.—An apoplectic effusion, <?, seven months old, in the corpus striatum, d, (see p. 294,) b, is the thalamus opticus, from which a slice, «, has been cut off, to show the grey substance, c is the choroid plexus. Case.—Alexander Cleaver, set. 45, in the Marylebone In- firmary, August 1832, had a mild apoplectic attack from which he recovered, but was carried off a month afterwards by acute laryngitis. Three years before, at which time he was subject to headaches, he had apoplexy, which left him affected with mental imbecility. He subsequently had occasional attacks—the last, seven months before death. An occasional increased impulse of the heart. Sectio.—No recent coagulum was found in the brain; whence the last apoplectic attack appears to have been merely congestive. The old clot, e, /, represented in the Fig., was found in the right corpus striatum, and must have corresponded with the fit seven months before. The arteries of the base were slightly thickened and opaque.