Some cases illustrative of the pathology of the brain / by Richard Powell.

  • Powell, Richard, 1767-1834.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Some cases illustrative of the pathology of the brain / by Richard Powell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Some Cases, illustrative of the Pathology of the Brain. By Richard Powell, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Phy- ~ sicians. Read at the COLLEGE, 2nd December, 1814. The pathology of the brain and ner- vous system appears even at present to be more defective, than other branches of medical science, and most practitioners must have felt cause to lament their previous uncertainty, vi^^ith respect to the altered condition of these parts, when the real nature of the diseases has been ascertained by anatomical investigation. If we fur- ther compare the actual symptoms of various affections of the brain, with those by which they are characterized in systems of nosology, w^ may, per- haps, be led to wish that the whole subject should be new modelled. In- flammation of its membranes, for ex- ample, is by no means unfrequent, whilst we rarely find it accompanied B by