Download or read book The Tri-State Medical Journal and Practitioner, 1897, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) written by James Moores Ball and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tri-State Medical Journal and Practitioner, 1897, Vol. 4 Brain tumors occur possibly more frequently in children than In adults Following meningitis, infantile spinal paralysis and cerebral hemorrhage they are next in the list of organic nervous diseases. In adults they are less frequent than cerebral hemorrhage, embolism or thrombosis. Starr (brain Surgery) has published a table of three hundred cases of brain tumor, which Shows the relative frequency of the different varieties of tumors in children and adults; tubercular tumors occurring 152 times in children and 41 times in adults. Sarcoma and glioma occur with almost equal frequency in children and adults. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.