| Description Of Item | Pages 19 to 27 from the London Medical Review, originally published July 1860. Article titled ‘Observations on a Case of Perforating Tumours of the Dura Mater’, by Charles T. Coote, FRCP [Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians] (Middlesex Hospital, assistant surgeon). Presents different types of ‘perforating intracranial tumours on the external surface of the dura mater’ (cancerous, medullary and epithelial, or fibro-plastic) and advances that what is called fungus of the dura mater may be more accurately divided into different diseases. Reports a recent case of a young man admitted with a tumour which pierced the skull. After a few months of ‘convulsive attacks’, blindness, diarrhoea, vomiting, headaches, and increasing paralysis, the young man died. The report of the autopsy is presented in full, with discovery of several perforating tumours and many smaller ones, on the dura mater. Article to be continued in the following issue of the journal.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |