A probationary essay on injuries of the head : submitted, by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary Fellows / by George Gill.

  • Gill, George, 1804?-1866.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A probationary essay on injuries of the head : submitted, by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary Fellows / by George Gill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON INJURIES] OF THE HEAD. A s the narrow limits of a Probationary Essay pre- vent me from entering into a detail of the whole Injuries of the Head, I propose, instead of following out the common arrangement into Wounds of the Scalp, Fractures of the Skull, and Affections of the Brain and its Membranes, to proceed at once to Injuries of the Brain ; touching on Wounds of the Scalp, and Fractures of the Skull, in so far only as they derive importance from their connexion with lesions within the Cranium. The effects of injuries on the contents of the skull are reducible to three heads: Concussion, Compres- sion and Inflammatory Action. However imperfect this arrangement may appear, it is the best which our present knowledge enables us to form ; and al- though we are often disappointed in the application of it to practice, there is reason to hope that the use of it may lead to a more perfect acquaintance with the subject. The states of Concussion, Compression and Inflammation are so often mixed up in the ef-