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

William Hey

Date:: 1803

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

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$tenfive fracture, bya furgeon who conducts Mr. Gooch, who was an excellent furgeon, applied the trephine thirteen times in one cafe, and for that purpofe removed the whole portion of fealp covering the fractured part of the cranium. An infpeétion of the Plate, in which this fracture is reprefented, is fufficient to convince any experienced furgeon how te- dious the cure muft have been, and how great- ly the patient would have been benefited by the prefervation of the {calp, if fuch preferva- tion had been practicable. Tt is well known by every experienced fur- geon, that the exiftence of a fraéture cannot always be afcertained till the cranium 1s ex- poled to view. Suppofe then a furgeon called to a patient labouring under the ufual {ymp- toms of a fracture of the fkull, where there is no wound, nor inequality in the furface of the given by Mr. Pott, it feems that he ought to make a circular excifion of the {ealp, where the injury has been received, for the purpofe of aicertaining the exiftence of a fracture. ‘“ If ‘‘ there be no wound, the point ftricken “ fhould be made the centre of the incifion.” B 3 lam$

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