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

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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$ted with, who have thefe wanting in them > Hence is it, that thofe that want thefe are fb frequently accompanied with Pains of the Head, and other Perplexities 3 which trouble not fitch as have thefe expulfive Paflages. Ano¬ ther benefit hereof is, that one of thefe being obftru&ed, the other do fupply its place : and though in this cafe it is not capable to give fb quick a difpatch, yet by degrees it performeth its office very promptly. the Subftance of the Skull does vary much in refpefl As touching of age, being in an infant Membranous, and in one ofj{sSub' riper years of a more Boney fubftance. It hath not a like its Figure. Figuie in all men, containing in it botn the Cerebrum and Cerebellum. And this variety or difiimilitude is not fb much inconfiftent with the Eyes, Nofe, Ears, and the lineaments of the Face, as in the Bones and Sutures. And the caufe hereof is generally referred to the ffrength or weaknefs of the Formative faculty, plenty or fcarcity of Matter, or its goodnefs or illnefs, as Galen declares. Hippocrates does fet down four Figures of the Head • Four Figures two of which he faith are preternaturall. For in one fr[je Hea,d hereof there is found no Prominency in the Occiput, and Hippo°crates! then there remain two Sutures, the Coronall, and Right 5 the Lambdoidall vanifhing. In the other there is° no Projefture about the Front, and then onely the^appear, viz. the Lambdoides, and Rett a ^ and the Corona’ll is ex- tindl. And thefe two Figures in their Sutures do form the Letter T. The third is natural], and is of a Sphasri- call Roundnefs, carrying with it the, naturall Idea and Refemblance of the Head : but this being depreffed, it exprefleth an anteriour and pofteriour prominent part 5 and being on either fide depreffed, thefe three Sutures do remain in the form and conffitution of the Head, (viz.) Coronalk, Retta, Lambdoides, and being placed together cxa&ly do make H. The fourth Figure is, when either Prominency is loft, which is contrary to the naturall fi- 3 gut e$