An inquiry into the causation, diagnosis, and treatment of fracture of the internal table of the skull / by William Frederic Teevan.
- Teevan, W. F. (William Frederic), 1834-1887
- Date:
- 1865
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An inquiry into the causation, diagnosis, and treatment of fracture of the internal table of the skull / by William Frederic Teevan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![A/I Inquiry into the Causation, Diag/iosis, and Treatment of Fracture of the Internal Table of the Skull. By William Frederic Teevan, F.R.O.S., B.A., Surgeon to tlie West London Hospital, &c. lltepri/ited from the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical_ Review for July \st, 1865.] Ix is, firstly, necessary to establish the existence of fracture of the internal table only, resulting from violence applied to the exterior of the skull, inasmuch as it is denied by some, doubted by many, and admitted by but few, English Surgeons. I will, therefore, adduce not only many well recorded cases, but, also refer to such patho- logical specimens, illustrative of this particular inquiry, as I have been able to discover during a personal examination of all the pathological museums in London, the museum at Netley, and the Musee Dupuytren in Paris. It has, by some, been supposed that this variety of fracture was known to Hippocrates; this, however, is incorrect, as a careful examination of his works will shew. One of the earliest writers who was aware of this lesion was Jacobus Berengarius Carpinensis, who stated, at page 6, of his work, “De Fractura Cranii, published in Bologna, in 1535 : “ Est alia species in qua os frangitur tantum inferiixs versus panniculum, et dicitur Marusis ab Haly, in Pantoegni vero Monesis vel Marusis. Hanc speciem credo ego esse plica- turam ossis, quando os plicatur, et intra tantum rumpitur et non extra.” However, the earliest recorded case I have been able to find is that by Ambrose Par4, at page 225, of the tenth volume of his works, published in 1652 : “ Ce que j’ay veu aduenir a vn gen- tilhomme de la compagnie de monsieur d’Estapes, lequel fut bless6 BUT la breche du chasteau de Hedin, d’un coup d’arquebuse qu’il reqeut sur I’os parietal, ayant vn habillement de teste, lequel la balle enfonga sans estre rompu, ny pareillement le cuir, ny le crane exterieurement, et le sixiSrae jour mourut apoplectique. Done](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22346090_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
