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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    need hardly fay, that, in the cafes which I have related, there was not the Icaft ii^emorrhagei But it is right to mention, that I have alfo twice bden able, by attend^ ing to the want of haemorrhage front the outfide of the cranium, to afcertain the extent to which the dura mater was de- tached within} and very frequently, wheri fymptoms appeared to demand a perfora- tion of the fkull, I have feen it contra-^ indicated by the haemorrhage from the bone, land, as the event has proved, rightly* When the bone has reiiiained long bare, the cafe may become perplexing. I once fCraped a portion of the cranium which had been fome time denuded, and found that it bled in fuch a manner, as, in my opinion, fufficiently to point out the ad-» hdfion of the dura mater, and of courfe the inutility of employing the trephine * In aged perfons, and in tliofe in whom t]?e circular tlon has been rendered langi^d by the accident, the mode • of diftin£lion which I have pointed out, may indeed be lefs concluflve^ Where