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 6 5 ] pulfe and countenance, not eafy to convey an idea of. And in truth he might with more propriety add, not eafy to be perceived ; which points out the neceffity of it. And concludes by faying, that of ail hu¬ man means it bids the faireft to fuc- ceed. We have already fhewn on what principles Mr. Bromfield, in thofe cafes difapproves of this method, and prefers the giving of Dover s pow¬ ders. That a man who has received a wound in the head, which lays the fcull bare, and is perhaps attended with other circumftances, may from this caufe independent of any injury, the veffels of the meninges or brain received, have a quicknefs in his pulfe, &c. which will indicate bleed¬ ing, is often the cafe. But that fuch an injury as makes at prefent the fubjedt of our enquiry, is attended F the
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