Temperature in relation to injuries of the head / by W. McAdam Eccles.

  • Eccles, William McAdam, 1867-1946.
Date:
[1895]
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Credit: Temperature in relation to injuries of the head / by W. McAdam Eccles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Temperature. Sixteen liours after injury, 5 P-i- 6 9 10 „ 10.30 p.m. 11 p.m. 11.30 p.m. 12 midniglit I a.m. 1.30 a.m. Death. t 3 ]).m. lOI 1' 103.4 103-4'' 105.6° ] 06.2° 108° 108.4° 109° 109° Case III, reported by Dr. Hale White,^ was under the care of Mr. Davies-Colley. A man received a gunshot wound on tlje right side of the head between the external angular process and the top of the pinna of the ear. The bullet was extracted, but he died twelve hours after the operation, the temperature having risen to 104.4° ^- The post- mortem examination I'evealed that the bullet had not perforated the dura mater, but had caused considerable contusion of the anterior extremity of the middle lobe of the right hemisphere and of the third frontal convolution. Case IV. reported by the late Mr. Marcus Beck.-—A boy aged 7 fell off a wall at one o'clock on July 13, 1877. He became comatose from middle meningeal bagrnorrhagfe. lie was trephined, and became for the time somewhat better, but his temperature began to rise, and twelve hours after the accident it was 106° F., and just before his death, three hours later, it had reached 106.4° F., and rose to 108.4° F. within five minutes after death. At the p)ost-mortem examination no macroscopic injury of the cerebral substance could be detected. Case V. also reported by Mr. Beck with the preceding.—A young woman, aged 25 years, had compression from middle meningeal hasmorrhage, and was trephined, and relieved for the time. Haemorrhage, with the symptoms of compression, recurred, and her temperature rose to 103.6° F. before her death, which took place eighteen hours after the operation. Case VI. A child, aged 2\ years, was admitted under Mr. 5 Guy's Hospital Reports, vol. xlii. p. 91. - Medical Times and Gazette, 1877, vol. ii. p. 159.