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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
    Subject
    Content object
    human body
       > brain
    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.”
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