. Some points in the surgery of the brain and its membranes . Fig. Fig. i6i. Figs. i6o and i6i.—Symmetrical atrophy and degeneration of the occipital lobes.(Marchand, 1903.) Fig. 160.—Left 161.—Right hemisphere. from a bilateral cortical lesion. The patient, a femalethen nineteen years old, was admitted to an asylumon October i, 1880, with the diagnosis epilepsy withcriminal tendencies. At the age of one year she hadhad meningitis. Fits had commenced a year before her OF TUMOUR OF THE BRAIN 307 admission. Fits occurred at intervals without notice-able change for seventeen
. Some points in the surgery of the brain and its membranes . Fig. Fig. i6i. Figs. i6o and i6i.—Symmetrical atrophy and degeneration of the occipital lobes.(Marchand, 1903.) Fig. 160.—Left 161.—Right hemisphere. from a bilateral cortical lesion. The patient, a femalethen nineteen years old, was admitted to an asylumon October i, 1880, with the diagnosis epilepsy withcriminal tendencies. At the age of one year she hadhad meningitis. Fits had commenced a year before her OF TUMOUR OF THE BRAIN 307 admission. Fits occurred at intervals without notice-able change for seventeen years, and then became morefrequent. With the increasing frequency of the fitsfailure of sight was noticed, and speech became failed slowly and progressively, and in five yearsshe was, except for bare perception of light in thecentral portion of both fields, totally blind. The rightside of the field of vision was first lost. Towards thelast she also lost the faculty of direction, so that shecould not find her way about the wing of the asylum ofw
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