Practical observations in surgery / Illustrated with cases by William Hey.

  • William Hey
Date:
1803
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Credit: Practical observations in surgery / Illustrated with cases by William Hey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 forded in future a confiderable degree of protection to the brain, which by the remo- val of the cranium is unavoidably expofed to danger. I contider the prefervation of the foiled as a material advantage to a patient who has fuf- fered a fracture of the fkull; not only with vering of the brain may.afterwards afford him, but alfo with relation to the effeét which fuch many cafes, the fealp may be applied imme- diately to the cranium and dura mater, after the removal of fuch part of the bone ag is ne- ceffary to be removed: and where the imme- diate application is improper, the fcalp may be kept feparate for a time, without injury to the patient, till the parts underneath it are brought into fuch a fiate as wall admit a re- If the excifion of a portion of the fcalp be confidered as neceflary, when a fingle appli- fame reafon fuch excilion muft be repeated, or enlarged, when the extent of the fracture re- tion of the fealp muft be made 3 in a very ex= ; tenfive | =
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