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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    [ 3& ] this laft, where they enter to unload themfelves into the linufes; it is of much greater extent than the exter¬ nal, as it fuftains and divides, by its different duplicatures, the brain ; and ferves alfo to form the linufes that convey the venal blood into the internal jugulars. The dura mater receives arteries from the carotids and vertebrals, and the blood is re¬ turned by their refpedtive veins, which are generally double the num¬ ber of arteries, into the finufes : Al¬ though it is by no means probable that this membrane fhould be diverted of nerves; yet they are io fine as to be fcarce difcernible. W inflow fays they are from the fifth, feventh, and eighth pair. There exifts a fort of general communication between the different veffels throughout this mem¬ brane. The pia mater is likewife com- pofed of two fine lamina; eonne&ed A by
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