Internal organs well. Male, and born at full period, though the testicles were above the groin. The breech presented, and a hook was required to remove the head. 1848. Dr. J. B. 8. Jackson.
The three following casts of hydrocephalic subjects are from the phrenological collection, and the two last from the collections of Dr. Spurzheim and Mr. Holm. 1847.
1891. Head of a young child.
1892. Head of an older child.
1893. Distended brain.
1894. Drawing of a hydrocephalic child; head of an enormous size. Copied from a drawing in the Med. Soc.'s Cabinet; and this last from the well-known drawing of Mr. Cruikshank's case in the Museum of the Coll. of Surgeons, London. 1861. Museum Fund.
1895. Dura mater, ossified along the longitudinal sinus. From a female dissecting subject, twenty-five or thirty years of age, who was said to have died of epilepsy. 1859.
1896. A second specimen. 1853. Dr. J. B. S. Jackson.
1897. A third and large mass, 2 in. in length. From a man, sixty-seven years of age. 1868.
1898. A fourth. Extensive ossification along the longitudinal sinus. Preserved in connection, with a portion of the calvaria. From an old man. 1869.
The formation in the above cases consists of true bone.
1899. A cretaceous tumor, that arose from the inner surface of the dura mater, and pressed in upon, but did not adhere to, the brain. This last was healthy, as were the membranes, excepting some serous effusion. The tumor, of which a portion has been removed, must have been about as large as the top of the thumb; consists of the carb. of lime, and the structure is light and crumbling.
From an old lady, æt. seventy-two, who had had disease of the heart, and for several years had complained of
