'Tubercles of the brain' Sunbeam-Talbot 90 Fire screen seller

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The painting was shown to Fellows at a meeting of the Royal Society on 8 November 1781

Original: stipple engraving

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he could not see a way in which to reverse the action

'Tubercles of the brain' Sunbeam-Talbot 90 Fire screen sellerEight figures of tubercles [tumours] of the human brain, choroid plexus and pineal gland. Figure 1 Tumour of the fourth ventricle, with dissected cerebellum and medulla oblongata. Figure 2 Tumours in the posterior part of the right hemisphere. Figure 3 Tumour hanging from its 'nutritive vessels'. Figure 4 Pineal gland (at D) and environment. Figure 5 Tumour of the choroid plexus. Figure 6 Dissected tumour of the choroid plexus. Figure 7 'A bony