Malignant tumour within the cranium - UCD Digital Library

Malignant tumour within the cranium

Abstract: Watercolour medical illustration depicting a malignant tumour. It has the alternative reference number 1930 and P15A on the front. There is no Richmond Hospital Museum reference. Includes the stamp of Bristol Boards papermakers in the top right corner. The artist's name is in the bottom right corner 'J. Connolly Del.t'. The typescript note on the back reads 'Malignant Tumour within the Cranium'. The illustration has a protective sheet hinged over the front of the illustration.

In collection  Richmond Hospital Medical Illustrations

Resource description

Responsibility
The doctor could not be identified for certain but may be B.G. McDowel.
Origin information
Dublin, Ireland
Date created:
Type of Resource
still image
text
Physical description
1 art original : col.
35 x 26 cm
Scope and content
The full typescript note on the back reads 'Malignant Tumour within the Cranium – Dr McDowell exhibited the brain of a man, of middle age, who, in August, 1849, had been admitted to Richmond Hospital with a small tumour in the parotid region, which was removed by Dr Mac Donnell. The wound soon healed, and the man continued well for six months, at the end of which period he began to suffer from occasional attacks of loss of power of the left arm and leg; they occurred once or twice a week, and lasted for several hours; he likewise suffered from violent attacks of headach(sic), the pain being referred chiefly to the frontal region. About two years and eight months after the operation, he was admitted into the Hardwicke Hospital, labouring under fever of a low character, and died at the expiration of a fortnight, with suffocative catarrh. Autopsy – The original disease was found to have recurred in the parotid region, the surface of the gland being covered with a slight deposit of scirrhous structure; there was no malignant deposition in the chest or abdomen, but a tumour as large as a hen's egg was found resting on the upper surface of the right cerebral hemisphere, near the mesial line; it was covered by the dura mater, which was at one spot perforated by a small projecting portion of the tumour, and in this situation the parietal bone was also perforated. The tumour, which was nearly as firm as scirrhus(sic), had by its pressure formed a cavity for itself in the brain, but there was no softening of the cerebral structure. – December 4, 1852'.
Numbering/sequence
Original reference number: 1930.
Languages
English  
Genre
Watercolors   linked data (gmgpc)   Medical illustrations   linked data (gmgpc)
Subject
Parotid Neoplasms
Brain Neoplasms
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_280946
Location
University College Dublin. UCD Archives . P263/946
Suggested credit
"Malignant tumour within the cranium," held by UCD Archives. © Public domain. Digital content by University College Dublin, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:280946>
Record source
Descriptions created by staff of UCD Library, University College Dublin based on a finding aid and databases provided by UCD Archives. — Metadata creation date: 2022-06-02

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