The chirurgical works of Percivall Pott, F.R.S. and surgeon to St. Bartholomew̕s hospital.

  • Percivall Pott
Date:
1775
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Credit: The chirurgical works of Percivall Pott, F.R.S. and surgeon to St. Bartholomew̕s hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fudden, he was feized with all the fymptoms of a peripneumony, and,, on the third day from that feizure, died. No apparent caufe of mif- chief was found either within or on the outfide of the head, the dura mater was well incarned, and no lodgment of matter. SECT. IV. Fiffures, and Fractures of the Cranium, without DepreJJion F^Radtures of the cranium were, by the ancient writers, divided into many different forts, each of which was diflinguifhed by an ap¬ pellation of Greek etymology, borrowed either from the figure of the fradture, or the difpofition of the broken pieces. Thefe are to be found in moftof the old books, but as they [merely load the memory, with¬ out informing the underftanding, or afiifting the practitioner, modern authors have generally laid them afide. This kind of injury is divifible into two general heads, viz. thofe in which the broken parts keep their proper level, or equality of fur- face, with the reft of the fkul], and thofe in which they do not ; or,, in other words, fradtures without depreflion, and fradtures with. Thefe two d’ftindtions are all which are really neceffary to be made, and will be found to comprehend every violent divifion of the parts of the fkull, (not made by a cutting-inftrument) from the fineft capillary fiflure, up to the moft complicated fradture : for fiffures and fractures, differing from each other only in the width of the breach, or in the diftance of the feparated parts, and the difpofition of broken pieces, in large fradtures, being fubjedt to an almoft infinite variety, diftinc- tions, and appellations drawn and made from thefe circumftances, might be multiplied to even three times the old number, without. < * imparting;