Observations on wounds of the head, with a particular enquiry into the parts principally affected in those who die in consequence of such injuries / By William Dease.

  • William Dease
Date:
1776
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Credit: Observations on wounds of the head, with a particular enquiry into the parts principally affected in those who die in consequence of such injuries / By William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 1J3 ] CASE VIIL Augufl: 7th, 1774. A MAN aged fifty was over- turned by a carriage, and the wheel palled over his head, by which the convex part of the right parietal was laid bare, and an angular flap formed. He was immediately car¬ ried to the hofpital, and the furgeon in attendance, after freeing the wound from all extraneous matter, replaced the flap and fupported it fo by future, bled him, and ordered an opening mixture. Next day he was bled twice, and kept to a ftridf regimen, and had a faline julep. The wound feemed to promife fair, he had no greater degree or fever or pain in his head, than might reafonably be expected from fuch a large lacerated wound. The I fourth
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