Volume 1
Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
- Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum
- Date:
- 1830-1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Series XXXVIII. Diseases of the Brain and its Membranes. 1. Injuries from External Violence. 1009. Part of the dura mater of a man aged twenty-five, who was accident- ally shot through the head with an iron ramrod, discharged from a musket on the 5th November, 1783. [The ramrod penetrated the posterior part of the right parietal bone, and passing forwards obliquely through the brain, came out on the opposite side through the squamous portion of the temporal bone, and through the skin just behind the ex- ternal angle of the left eye. The ramrod was pulled out with some difficulty by a by-stander. The man was removed from Twickenham to St. George’s Hospital, a distance of about ten miles, and survived the accident thirty-seven hours. A bristle marks the course of the rod.] 1010. A portion of dura mater with a layer of coagulated lymph on its inner surface, in consequence of inflammation after an accident. 1011. A portion of dura mater inflamed and furred with coagulated lymph; from a patient who died in St. George’s Hospital after the operation of the trepan. 1012. Dura mater thickened in consequence of injury from the application of the trepan. 1013. Dura mater thickened from the adhesive inflammation, in consequence of the application of the trepan. 1014. Dura mater thickened, [evidently from the same cause]. From a negro at St. George’s Hospital. 1015. Dura mater with coagulable lymph thrown out on its surface, after the operation of the trepan. 1016. Dura mater thickened. Coagulable lymph has been thrown out, in two places on its external surface, after the operation of the trepan. 1017- A portion of the skull of an ass after the operation of the trepan. The dura mater is firmly attached to the inside of the skull surrounding the aperture, and a fungous excrescence from the outer surface of the dura mater fills up the cavity made by the crown of the trepan. n 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2200662x_0001_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
