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    Image number: RS.10096
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    ‘Vesicles in the cerebrium’

    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
    Section of both hemispheres of the human brain, showing three ‘vesicles’ in the right hemisphere.

    The author states in accompanying text that this is: “A representation of three vesicles...occupying the greater part of the anterior and middle lobes...The fluid contained in these vesicles was of a straw colour, and had very much the appearance of the serum of the blood...”

    Plate 14 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 XIV. J.Howship, delt. J.Stewart sculpt. VESICLES OF THE BRAIN. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
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