LANTERN–SLIDE EXHIBITION OF PATHOLOGICAL SPECIMENS OF RARE BRAIN LESIONS

Exhibition of Pathological Specimens and Demonstrations

1. Dr Noel Paton showed a specimen of A large glioma growing from the upper surface of the cerebellum, chiefly from the left side, but extending over to the right side. The tumour extended from the anterior to the posterior border of the cerebellum, and extended deeply into the organ, destroying nearly one-half of its substance. Sections of the tumour exhibited under the microscope showed it to...

Exhibition of Specimens, Etc.

Public Business. Exhibition of Specimens

cleared up when the patient was about 23. In 1916 she had been having profuse periods and also slight intermenstrual bleeding. She consulted a medical practitioner then, who found fibroid tumours in the uterus and recommended X-ray therapy. Her family asked that a second opinion should be secured and a general surgeon was called in consultation. He confirmed the diagnosis of fibroids. He recomm...

Exhibition of Specimens and Gelatine Cast

of paralysis about fourteen days after childbirth, in all probability of embolic or thrombotic origin. The paralysis involved the whole of the right side, leg, arm, and face, along with aphasia, but passed off very soon. In a few weeks it had almost disappeared, and in seven or eight months there was nothing left but aphasic symptoms. Nine months afterwards, however, mental symptoms showed them...

Pathological Specimens