Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10088
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‘Tumours of the dura mater’
Date
1826
Creator
J Wedgewood (British) , Lithographer
After
George Kirtland (British) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X307/3
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 307mm
width (print): 238mm
width (print): 238mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of two types of tumour within the human dura mater, one of the meninges (membranes of the central nervous system).
The author states in accompanying text that: “In this plate the hard and soft tumours are represented as they occurred in the same subject. It is very probably, that they are the same disease in different stages, and that they belong to haematoma or cephaloma; but as no intermediate appearance has been met with, I consider them as distinct.”
Plate 6 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 VI. G.Kirtland delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. TUBERCULES OF THE DURA MATER. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
The author states in accompanying text that: “In this plate the hard and soft tumours are represented as they occurred in the same subject. It is very probably, that they are the same disease in different stages, and that they belong to haematoma or cephaloma; but as no intermediate appearance has been met with, I consider them as distinct.”
Plate 6 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 VI. G.Kirtland delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. TUBERCULES OF THE DURA MATER. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
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