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    Image number: RS.10083
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    ‘Inflammation of the dura mater’

    Date
    1826
    Creator
    J Wedgewood (British) , Lithographer
    After
    John Howship (1781 - 1841, British) , Surgeon
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X307/3
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 307mm
    width (print): 238mm
    Subject
    Content object
    human body
       > brain
    Description
    Internal surface of a portion of the human dura mater, one of the meninges (membranes of the central nervous system) covering the right hemisphere of the brain, showing inflammation.

    The author states in accompanying text that: “This...plate represent[s] the common effects of acute inflammation of the dura mater, namely, morbid vascularity and an effusion of albumen. In some instances an adhesion to the tunica arachnoids takes place; in others an effusion of serum or of pus, the former more frequently than the latter; but neither of these diseased appearances can be satisfactorily represented by engravings.”

    Plate 1 from the monograph The morbid anatomy of the human brain; being illustrations of the most frequent and important organic diseases to which that viscus is subject, by Robert Hooper (London, Longman, Rees..., 1826). Inscribed: “PLATE I. J.Howship, delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. INFLAMMATION OF THE DURA MATER.”
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