. Some points in the surgery of the brain and its membranes . CONCRETE CONCEPT Fig. 156.—Areas and centres of the lateral aspect of the humanhemicerebrum. (Mills.). Fig. 157.—Areas and centres of the mesial aspect of the humanhemicerebrum. (Mills.) of intra - abdominal disease ; and, moreover,within the skull an exploratory operation cannotbe conducted in the same rapid and completemanner and with so little serious risk as in the 296 SOME POINTS IN THE SURGERY abdomen. The maxim that diagnosis mustprecede operation is only true of those diseases,the signs, symptoms, and course of which arefull


. Some points in the surgery of the brain and its membranes . CONCRETE CONCEPT Fig. 156.—Areas and centres of the lateral aspect of the humanhemicerebrum. (Mills.). Fig. 157.—Areas and centres of the mesial aspect of the humanhemicerebrum. (Mills.) of intra - abdominal disease ; and, moreover,within the skull an exploratory operation cannotbe conducted in the same rapid and completemanner and with so little serious risk as in the 296 SOME POINTS IN THE SURGERY abdomen. The maxim that diagnosis mustprecede operation is only true of those diseases,the signs, symptoms, and course of which arefully comprehended. When the early clinicalmanifestations of a disease are ill understood,and when danger attends delay, the surgeon iscontent to act upon a provisional lives are thus saved, and diagnosis becomesperfected. The signs and symptoms of tumour of theoccipital, frontal, and parietal regions will now bebriefly referred to, and some cases related whichillustrate the statements made. The functionsof the cortical regions of the cerebrum are illus-trated by the diagrams of Mills. The convexityof the hemisphere is the region of most interes


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