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Image number: RS.10094
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‘Tubercles of the brain’
Date
1826
Creator
J Stewart senior (British) , Lithographer
After
John Howship (1781 - 1841, British) , Surgeon
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X307/3
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 307mm
width (print): 238mm
width (print): 238mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Eight figures of tubercles [tumours] of the human brain, choroid plexus and pineal gland. Figure 1 Tumour of the fourth ventricle, with dissected cerebellum and medulla oblongata. Figure 2 Tumours in the posterior part of the right hemisphere. Figure 3 Tumour hanging from its “nutritive vessels”. Figure 4 Pineal gland (at D) and environment. Figure 5 Tumour of the choroid plexus. Figure 6 Dissected tumour of the choroid plexus. Figure 7 “A bony tubercle”. Figure 8 Encysted pineal gland.
The author states in accompanying text that: “This plate contains a representation of the white, black, and bony tubercles, and the diseases of the choroid plexus, and pineal gland.”
Plate 12 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 XII. J.Howship, delt. J.Stewart sculpt. TUBERCLES OF THE BRAIN and DISEASES OF THE CHOROID PLEXUS AND PINEAL GLAND. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
The author states in accompanying text that: “This plate contains a representation of the white, black, and bony tubercles, and the diseases of the choroid plexus, and pineal gland.”
Plate 12 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 XII. J.Howship, delt. J.Stewart sculpt. TUBERCLES OF THE BRAIN and DISEASES OF THE CHOROID PLEXUS AND PINEAL GLAND. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
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