498 On the Nervous Systems of 
« A few hours after her death, Dr. Blamire and 
Mr. Charles. Farish accompanied. me to the 
house, where Dr. Blamire very cautiously dis. 
sected away from the bones the whole of the 
substance; when we found the greatest part of 
the frontal, the temporal and the occ pital, and 
the whole of the parietal bones wanting. The 
substance removed was then carefully examined, 
and what.was our astonishment to find it entirely 
to consist of membranes, blood-vessels, but 
principally of several bags, one of which was as 
large as a nutmeg, the rest of different sizes, 
but much smaller. They were all filled with a 
brownish coloured fluid; which, when the cysts 
were punctured, gushed out with some violence, 
There was not the least appearance of cerebrum, 
cerebellum, or any medullary substance whatever. 
The spinal marrow had a natural appearance, but 
did not seem to have been connected with the 
parts above described.’’ 
“ Having accurately related the facts, as they 
appeared to Dr, Blamire and myself, which for 
their singularity deserve to be recorded, I think 
the few following obvious inferences may be 
drawn from them. 1. That the fluid, discharged 
from the excrescence during the life of the 
infant, and which produced the greatest diminu- 
tion of its bulk, was occasioned by the rupture, 
or erosion of cysts, similar to those, which re- 
