Identifier: onepilepsyanatom00eche (find matches)
Title: On epilepsy : anatomo-pathological and clinical notes (with original plates and engravings.)
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Echeverria, M. Gonzalez (Manuel Gonzalez)
Subjects: Epilepsy Epilepsy
Publisher: New York : W. Wood
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ss behind the optic chiasma. Different sections of the medulla,manifested the same sclerosis, coincident with dilatation of thecapillary vessels, granular and surrounded by heaps of fatty mole-cules. These varicosities would be discovered likewise in manycapillaries around the cerebral ulceration. The increased amyloidcorpuscles and nuclei of connective tissue caused the elastic lardaceousappearance of the cerebral tissue. In the medulla the degenerationwas strongly marked in the vicinity of the restiform bodies, and inthe corpora olivaria. The cells in these latter, had lost their naturalfatty aspect, becoming dark and granular. The lesions in the foregoing case obviously show acircumscribed gummy deposit, coexisting with generalsclerosis of the brain tissue, less advanced in theright than in the left hemisphere, both being, how-ever, much increased in size. This enlargementis not common in cerebral syphilis, Virchow reportsthe extraordinary case of a young prostitute, who PI cite IV
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Ad lUlt.cop^ Syphilitic Epilepsy. tMiUUf, ChroRwUxlL.. Qirknihe.: OF EPILEPSY. 71 died shortly after being seized with peculiar nervoussymptoms.* Autopsy.—Brain with acute hypertrophy.Dura-mater thinned so much as to render visible thecerebral convolutions, which disappeared upon removalof the membranes in consequence of the excessiveover-distension of the brain. Small quantity of sero-sity at the base of the brain and in the ventricles.Cerebral substance firm, but not with the resistanceof leather, dry, dense, completely anaemic, and withoutthe least modification in its structure ,• oblong medullaand nerves originating from it, normal. Dura-materthickened and reddish at the level of the axis, rootsof the spinal nerves uninjured. The autopsy didnot sufficiently account for the strange symptoms ofthe patient. Virchow pronounces the case one ofacute hypertrophy, without the least modification inthe structure of the brain. This assertion is made,however, without explaining if it is b

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