Surgical observations on injuries of the head ; and on miscellaneous subjects / by John Abernethy ... [etc.].

  • John Abernethy
Date:
1810
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Credit: Surgical observations on injuries of the head ; and on miscellaneous subjects / by John Abernethy ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ti'anquil and coHefted, On the fixth day, fymptoms of irritation ^gain tools place, and were again relieved by fimilar treatment. The dura mater had granulated, and the whole wound looked healthy, Eveiy thing went on remarkably well until the fifteenth ^lay, when the patient was feized with rigor and pain in his head, and the healthy afpe6l of the wound was alfo changed. The foU lowing day, there was perceived, in the middle of the expofed dura mater^ an aperture through which a protrufion of the brain arofe, covered by the pia mater, which rejtained \ts natural appearance. In lefs than tw^enty- four hours this tumor increafed to the fiZ!Q of an orange j its furface was dark-coloured, ^nd irregular, and the pia mater no longer ^iftinguifhable. The follqwing morning the \)oy died j and his friends had removed the body from th? hofpital before I knew qJ his ^eceafe, I regretted very much that I could not ex- amine the nature of this fungus or hernia cerebri, as it was a phasnomenon which I had paore than oa]ce contemplated with furprife, 9nd