Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10090
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‘Inflammation of the brain’
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 diseased human brains. Figure 1 Part of the left side of the brain showing (at D) “an immense mass of diseased structure.” Figure 2 Part of the right half of the brain showing (at C) “a considerable mass of pulpy and discoloured brain.”
The author states in accompanying text that: “The two diseased appearances represented in this plate are the consequence of inflammation in the substance of the brain. In the one there is a secretion of a yellow albumen in small patches thoughout the corpus striatum...The other is an extensive destruction of the medullary substance which had become soft...”
Plate 8 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 VIII. G.Kirtland delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. DISEASED APPEARANCES SUBSEQUENT TO INFLAMMATION. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
The author states in accompanying text that: “The two diseased appearances represented in this plate are the consequence of inflammation in the substance of the brain. In the one there is a secretion of a yellow albumen in small patches thoughout the corpus striatum...The other is an extensive destruction of the medullary substance which had become soft...”
Plate 8 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 VIII. G.Kirtland delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. DISEASED APPEARANCES SUBSEQUENT TO INFLAMMATION. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
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