An appeal to the public, touching the death of Mr. George Clarke : who received a blow at Brentford on Thursday the eighth of December last, of which he languished and died on Wednesday the fourteenth of the same month / By John Foot.

  • Foot, John
Date:
1769
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Credit: An appeal to the public, touching the death of Mr. George Clarke : who received a blow at Brentford on Thursday the eighth of December last, of which he languished and died on Wednesday the fourteenth of the same month / By John Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prefence of the jury, affifted by Mr. Bear- croft, a Surgeon in his Majefty’s fervicf, who had 'ormerly lived with me for his im- prcvemen:, and was at this time accidentally' in l own. I examined the body very carefully all over, it was not difeoleured in any part, nor had any appearance of hurt or diforder of any kind, except a contufed wound on the top of the head, by the fide of the fagittal fu are upon the right parietal bone ; the fcalp was elevated for a confiderable fpace round the wound, the pericranium which naturally adh res firmly to the bene, was much in- fl ired, and feparated from the fcull. After c e* nng this part 1 fearched for a fiffure or fra ft ure. but found neither; I then raifed th e whole of the fcalp and pericranium, and ac fraftures are not always to be found under the part where there are marks of external violence, I continued my examination, and fought for what has been called a contra future or frafture : I met with neither. I then proceeded to faw the bone circularly, beginning at the forehead ; after carefully railing the upper part of die fcull, I found the dura maicr (which is the external mem¬ brane of the brain) greatly inflamed, par¬ ticularly under die part where the blow was given, and here detached from the bone, to wh h in found flaw it is clofely connected. Upon removing this membrane, 1 faw a quantity
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