Volume 2

Essays and orations, read and delivered at the Royal College of Physicians; to which is added an Account of the opening of the tomb of King Charles I / By Sir Henry Halford.

  • Henry Halford
Date:
1833
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Credit: Essays and orations, read and delivered at the Royal College of Physicians; to which is added an Account of the opening of the tomb of King Charles I / By Sir Henry Halford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dreadful disease, after sustaining his tor- tures for some years, with a constancy which attracted all our pity and esteem, and died at last under apoplexy. No assistance which the experience of any of us could afford him, gave him re- lief or controlled the violence of the at- tacks. On examining his head after death, there was found an unusual thickness of the os frontis, where it had been sawn through above the frontal sinuses, and at its juncture with the parietal bones. There was dis- covered also in the falciform process of the dura mater, at a little distance from the crista galli, a small osseous substance, about three-eighths of an inch in length, rather less in breadth, and about a line in thickness. The vessels of the pia mater were turgid with blood, and about an ounce of fluid oc- cupied the ventricles. I lamented that the frontal sinuses had not been examined, for
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