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Abstract
This Volume deals entirely with surgery of the brain in reference to epilepsy and tumors, and with Volume I, which appeared in 1910, furnishes a complete presentation of the surgery of the brain. These volumes are not presented as text-books on the subject, but rather as an extended report of its present status, based on ihe personal experiences of the author, amplified by the work of his contemporaries in surgery, neurology and pathology, and illustrated by a veritable atlas of cuts and half-tone figures. Epilepsy in all its clinical and surgical forms is presented in exhaustive detail. After some introductory remarks on physiology, jacksonian epilepsy is presented with such completeness that it is impracticable to record the details. The subject is treated under the general headings of etiology, tumors, infantile paralysis, injuries at birth, jacksonian epilepsy without anatomic findings, and the results of cortical excisions. Under "General Genuine Epilepsy," the results of some
Highlights
Visceral, referable to the bladder and rectum; trophic, consisting of muscular atrophy, and bed-sores ; and topical, comprising tenderness over the spine and sometimes deformity
A previous one by the same author deals with brain tumours.[7]
He says spinal-cord tumours are more susceptible to surgical treatment than brain tumours and a greater percentage recover, but, the majority of spinal-cord tumours prove fatal through inability to diagnose and localise them on account of their nature and extent and because of the jeopardy to life that operation brings
Summary
Visceral, referable to the bladder and rectum; trophic, consisting of muscular atrophy, and bed-sores ; and topical, comprising tenderness over the spine and sometimes deformity. Surgery of the Brain and Spinal Cord. A previous one by the same author deals with brain tumours.[7] He says spinal-cord tumours are more susceptible to surgical treatment than brain tumours and a greater percentage recover, but, the majority of spinal-cord tumours prove fatal through inability to diagnose and localise them on account of their nature and extent and because of the jeopardy to life that operation brings.
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