A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.

  • John Browne
Date:
1678
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Credit: A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    entire and trim, who, by her kind Invention and curious Cunning, hath to thefe hard Subftances added a middle matter, both for their better motion, and aiftion. And lmce alio this Queen of Order and Form hath granted Man the Divine (parks of Reafon and Aftion, and allow¬ ed him the Majefty of Government, fhe hath not nar¬ rowly confined his Animall faculties to a ftridt Room, but hath allotted him a largt-Compais to exercife the lame • and to guard thefe hath appointed this Cranium, as their beft defence and fecurity: and this brings me to the Dif- courfe it felf. And becaufe Infants and young Babes who have not arrived at a good age, cannot be granted’ to have in them a true and juft Symmetry and Proportion of Bones, thefe I at prefent pretermit, and Ihall onelv treat of iuch who have gained thefe. ^ And here we do grant, and generally allow, and ac-a. tonchin* count that the Head, which is fet and fixed upon thethcHc,<1, Vertebre of the Neck, does divide it felf into a Cranium and a Face 5 the Head being that Part which containeth the Brain, as we have already (hewn. It is called Cra¬ nium or x&lvuv, quajt x°ctv(3l Galea. As touching its Fi¬ gure and life, more afterwards. In young people it is feen to confift of fourteen Bones, feme of which are par¬ ticularly proper to it, others common. The proper are the Frontal] bone, two of the Sinciput, one of'the Occi¬ put, t wo Temple-bones, in each Ear planted, three Bones named Incus, Stapes, Malleus. The common are OsCu- neiforme, and Spongiojnm, and two of the Mandibles, be¬ tides the Teeth. But to pals thefe at prefent, we (hall particularly treat of thofe of the Skull, which are proper¬ ly thereto belonging, and its Sutures. And here, as the Brain is the moft noble Veflell of all others in the Body Nature hath placed this on the Top, being as the Prince of the reft, and covered it with a Skull, for keeping in its own dominion the Seat of Reafon, the Treafure of Judgment, the Regifter of Memory, the Shop of Senfe Q_2 and