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Title: Brain surgery
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Starr, M. Allen (Moses Allen), 1854-1932
Subjects: Brain Brain
Publisher: New York, Wood
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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e ganglia doesnot invade the internal capsule it cannot be detectedduring life. The crura cerebri, pons, and medulla contain thecentres of the various cranial nerve nuclei, and hencecranial nerve palsies are caused by disease in them.They transmit motor and sensory tracts to the spinalcord, hence numerous symptoms appear when theyare injured.1 The cerebellum, lying in the posterior cranialfossa beneath the tentorium cerebelli, controls theequilibrium of the body; hence disturbances of thenature of staggering and vertigo are produced bylesions affecting it, especially if its median lobe isinvolved. These local symptoms of brain disease must formthe chief guides to the physician in his diagnosis and 1 For a fuller statement of these facts of localization the readeris referred to my book, Familiar Forms of Nervous Disease. 12 BRAIN SURGERY. to the surgeon in operations. When they are presentthey point to a particular area of the organ whichmust be involved. When they are absent both neu-
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Fig. 6.—Photograph CFraser) Showing the Relations of the Cerebral Hemi-sphere, the Cerebellum, the Cranial Nerves, the Upper Spinal Cord and CervicalNerves to the Surface of the Head. The figures 1, 2, 3, are placed upon the chiefconvolutions of the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes of the hemi-sphere. THE DIAGNOSIS OF CEREBRAL DISEASE. 13 rologist and surgeon are as helpless as they were beforeany of these facts of localization were determined. Cases open to Operation. There are many cases in which it is evident thatbrain disease is present, but in which it cannot be

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