Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10095
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‘Encysted tumour 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
Study of the human brain from below, showing a large tumour with a central cavity on the right hemisphere.
The author states in accompanying text that this is: “A view of the basis of the brain, in which an encysted tumour is seen in the centre of the middle lobe of the right side. A small part of the cyst is cut away to let out the contents, which were a puriform albumen, of the consistency of cream.”
Plate 13 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 XIII. G.Kirtland delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. ENCYSTED TUMOUR of the BRAIN. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
The author states in accompanying text that this is: “A view of the basis of the brain, in which an encysted tumour is seen in the centre of the middle lobe of the right side. A small part of the cyst is cut away to let out the contents, which were a puriform albumen, of the consistency of cream.”
Plate 13 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 XIII. G.Kirtland delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. ENCYSTED TUMOUR of the BRAIN. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
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