THE LATER HISTORIES OF FOUR SURGICAL CASES

BRAIN TUMOR Case 1. —In December, 1887, I removed a large tumor from the brain.1It was my first case of modern cerebral surgery. The weight of the tumor was 3 ounces and 49 grains, and its size 2[unk] by 2½ by 1¾ inches, its circumference being 7¼ by 6 inches. The tumor was a fibroma arising from the dura. Dr. W. J. Taylor has stated2that the patient "lived for nearly twenty years" after the operation. This is an unintentional error, for it was 25 years last December since the operation, and the patient was still alive a few months ago. His sight is poor, but is sufficient to enable him to find his way about, though not to enable him to read. He has once in a year or so an epileptic attack in spite of his use of bromids. He is now 50 years old