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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    C ri7 ] CASE IX. Auguit 4th, 1774* ELINOR F ARREL, aged up¬ wards of forty, received a blow from her hufband, with an oak fap- ling, over the fuperior and pofferior part of the right parietal, which laid about an inch of the fcull bare. She was, as fhe faid, neither knock¬ ed down nor ftunned by the blow. Next day fhe came to the hofpital, and was dreffed ; but alter abfented herfelf, as fhe imagined the wound of no confequence, until the 15 th, being taken ill the night before with chillinefs, and pain in her head. The furgeon in attendance, as the fcalp was cedematous, enlarged the wound, and took her into the hof¬ pital, and ordered a laxative mixture. Next I
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