Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10097
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‘Extravasation of the blood’
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 sectioned to show the effects of a ruptured blood vessel in the right hemisphere.
The author states in accompanying text that: “This plate exhibits the usual appearances which the brain presents when blood is extravasated from the spontaneous rupture of a vessel in its substance.”
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 XV. G.Kirtland delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. EXTRAVASATION OF BLOOD in the BRAIN. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
The author states in accompanying text that: “This plate exhibits the usual appearances which the brain presents when blood is extravasated from the spontaneous rupture of a vessel in its substance.”
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 XV. G.Kirtland delt. J.Wedgewood sculpt. EXTRAVASATION OF BLOOD in the BRAIN. Published by Dr. Hooper. Jany.1826.”
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