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Image number: RS.10089
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‘Fungous tumour 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
Two figures showing a cancerous tumour of the human dura mater, one of the meninges (membranes of the central nervous system). Figure 1 an overview of the tumour in position. Figure 2 a small portion of the tumour removed.
The author describes in accompanying text: “A fungous tumour of the dura mater of a considerable size, arising, by a large base, from that part which covers the sphaenoid bone, a little to the right of the sella turcica, and extending across the pons Varolii to the opposite side, enveloping all the nerves, and adhering firmly to the dura mater.”
Plate 7 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 VII. G.Kirtland delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. FUNGOUS TUMOUR OF THE DURA MATER. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
The author describes in accompanying text: “A fungous tumour of the dura mater of a considerable size, arising, by a large base, from that part which covers the sphaenoid bone, a little to the right of the sella turcica, and extending across the pons Varolii to the opposite side, enveloping all the nerves, and adhering firmly to the dura mater.”
Plate 7 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 VII. G.Kirtland delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. FUNGOUS TUMOUR OF THE DURA MATER. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
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