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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    [ *44 ] fubftance ; and in many places gangrened. There was no fluid matter colle&ed in any particular fpot; but I remarked, the internal lamina of the dura mater, after fcraping oft the matter with which it was fmeared, feemed undifeafed. The right hemifphere, and the dura mater covering it, feemed little affe&ed. The whole brain was re¬ markably denfe ; which is generally the cafe with thofe who die where it is inflamed. Although this man was left to nature, and it is to be fuppofed, followed no fort of regimen; but expofed to the various diftrefles in¬ cident to the poor, from the time of his receiving the accident until that of his being brought to the hofpital ; yet we find he did not ficken fooner than the generality of patients do in fuch cafes : on the contrary, although it appeared on difie&ion
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