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Image number: RS.10085
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‘Inflammation of the pia mater and tunica arachnoides’
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
Human cranium exposed to show the brain and inflammation in two membranes of the meninges (protecting the central nervous system).
The author states in accompanying text that: “The upper part of the cranium is removed, and the dura mater divided all around, and reflected so as to allow the whole of the two hemispheres to be seen. The vessels of the pia mater are enlarged and turgid with blood; there is a considerable quantity of puriform albumen in patches between the two membranes; and the tunica arachnoids is, in many places, thickened and opaque.”
Plate 3 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 III. J.Howship, delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. INFLAMMATION OF THE PIA MATER and TUNICA ARACHNOIDES. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
The author states in accompanying text that: “The upper part of the cranium is removed, and the dura mater divided all around, and reflected so as to allow the whole of the two hemispheres to be seen. The vessels of the pia mater are enlarged and turgid with blood; there is a considerable quantity of puriform albumen in patches between the two membranes; and the tunica arachnoids is, in many places, thickened and opaque.”
Plate 3 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 III. J.Howship, delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. INFLAMMATION OF THE PIA MATER and TUNICA ARACHNOIDES. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
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