. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. e lay in bed, with die foot pointed. There was exaggerated knee reflex on theright side. There was no evidence of any mental weakness. He died of tuberculosis in February 1891. The post-mortem was made by Mr. R. , senior resident medical officer at the Childrens Hospital; we examined thebrain next day. An examination of the outer surface of the brain showed it to be per-fectly normal, the membranes \\<tx& healthy, there was no flattening of the convolutions orany evidenctJ of an old surface haemorrhage. The internal parts were exami
. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. e lay in bed, with die foot pointed. There was exaggerated knee reflex on theright side. There was no evidence of any mental weakness. He died of tuberculosis in February 1891. The post-mortem was made by Mr. R. , senior resident medical officer at the Childrens Hospital; we examined thebrain next day. An examination of the outer surface of the brain showed it to be per-fectly normal, the membranes \\<tx& healthy, there was no flattening of the convolutions orany evidenctJ of an old surface haemorrhage. The internal parts were examined by makingtransverse sections. The first section taken through the centrum ovale showed nothingabnormal. A section made exposing the lateral ventricles, without slicing the corpusstriatum, showed an old cyst (fig. 106, a) with brownish contents, | inch in length,situated on the left side in the white substance between the fissure of Rolando and thecorpus striatum ; and four small cysts B B situated on the right side in the white Fig. 106.—Horizontal Section of Brain, exposing lateral ventricles ( x |). f r, fissure ofRolando ; a, old blood cjst ; B, B, B, B, small blood cysts. Haemorrhage at two yearsof age ; death at twelve j-ears of age. The cyst marked A was apparently about \ inch in depth. There was no sclerosis orinduration in the neighbourhood of the cysts. A third section made lower than the above,and on a level with the upper surface of the cerebellum, and slicing the optic thalamus,caudate nucleus, and internal capsule (fig. 107), showed the lower limit of the cysX. seen infig. 106, a second old blood-cyst b, and another small one at C. Another similar cyst wasfound in the white substance of the frontal region at a lower level than fig. 107. Sections of the cord made in the cervical, dorsal, and lumbar regions did not showany sclerosis or wasting of the descending tracts ; neither was there any wasting of theinternal capsule or crura. In reviewing the
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