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interrupted sutures. The patient stood the operation very well, and after three 

 weeks deep X-ray therapy was given through the defect in the skull made by 

 removal of the bone flap. 



The portion of tissue removed showed a typical pineal tumour, with plenty 

 of large cells (Fig. 310). 



Fig. 309. — Radiograph after Ventriculography, showing Dilated 

 Lateral Ventricle. 



Subsequent progress. — The patient was discharged from hospital two months 

 later, but the stigmata of the pineal tumour, due to pressure on the corpora 

 quadrigemina, still persisted. 



The patient was admitted on 19th October, 1935, for a second course of 

 deep X-ray therapy ; but this did not have a very beneficial effect, and the 







Fig. 310. — Case 6. Histological Appearance of Pineal 

 Tumour ( ■ 32). 



patient left hospital very little improved by this treatment. We were informed 

 that he died a month afterwards at his home, no autopsy being obtained. 



Case 7. — Herbert O., aged 23, was admitted to hospital on 4th March, 1935, 

 complaining of double vision, which was first noticed some six weeks prior to 

 admission. The onset had been gradual and seemed to follow a series of head- 



