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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
width (print): 238mm
Subject
Content object
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.”
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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