| Description Of Item | Pages 383 to 388 from the London Medical Review, originally published February 1861. Article titled ‘Singular Case of Tumour of the Brain, Probably of Scrofulous Nature,’ by Edward Jackson, MB [Bachelor of Medicine], Sheffield. Describe the case of a man in his late thirties, afflicted with various symptoms such as weakness, facial paralysis, convulsions. After his death, an autopsy was carried out and is reported here: two large tumours were found in the brain and a smaller one (which perforated the skull) on the dura mater.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |