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    Image number: RS.10093
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    ‘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
    Subject
    Content object
    human body
       > brain
    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.”
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