Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10093
Looking for a special gift? Buy a print of this image.
‘Scrofula of the cerebellum’
Date
1826
Creator
J Stewart senior (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
Scrofula [tumour] of the cerebellum in the human brain.
The author states in accompanying text that this: “Represents a scrofulous tumour of the cerebellum, being a mass consisting of a soft, brain-like structure, and a quantity of an apparently unorganized cheesy substance, intercepted by portions of membrane and occupying almost the whole of the left lobe...”
Plate 11 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 XI. G.Kirtland delt. J.Stewart sculpt. SCROFULA OF THE CEREBELLUM. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
The author states in accompanying text that this: “Represents a scrofulous tumour of the cerebellum, being a mass consisting of a soft, brain-like structure, and a quantity of an apparently unorganized cheesy substance, intercepted by portions of membrane and occupying almost the whole of the left lobe...”
Plate 11 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 XI. G.Kirtland delt. J.Stewart sculpt. SCROFULA OF THE CEREBELLUM. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
Associated place