on the Functions of the Brain. 
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SECTION VI. 
The effects produced by depression, and thickening of different 
portions of the Skull. 
Unusual pressure of the skull upon the middle lobe of the 
brain, was attended with pain in the stomach, torpor of the 
bowels, nausea, retching, pain between the shoulders, and in 
the feet.* * * § On the upper part of the hemisphere, want of 
sleep, head-ache, and stupor. Those effects went off upon its 
removal. -f On both of the anterior lobes of the brain, hea- 
viness, loss of memory, depression of spirits, bordering on 
idiotism.J On the anterior lobes of the brain, accompanied 
with water between the tunica arachnoides and pia mater 
covering the superior part of the hemispheres, an apoplectic 
fit, heaviness, loss of memory, and a second apoplectic fit, 
which terminated in death. § On the lower and lateral part 
of the left posterior lobe of the brain, uneasiness in the skin 
of the left cheek, extending along the chin, throat, and 
trachea, hissing noise in the ears, inability to speak the words 
* The pressure was continued by a bony tumour in the form of a hemisphere, half 
an inch in thickness ; the broad surface attached to the parietal bone. 
f A depression of the under table of the left parietal bone close to the sagittal 
suture not more than an inch in length, and depressed for about one eighth of an 
inch. 
J The frontal bone was increased in thickness to a considerable degree. The per- 
son had been many years resident in India. 
§ There was a thickening of the os frontis, with small exostoses the size of peas 
upon its inner surface. The anterior lobe cerebri had a flattened appearance, and the 
tunica arachnoides was loaded with water. 
