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Cases and practical remarks in surgery. With sketches of machines, of simple construction, easy application, and approved use / [Benjamin Gooch].

Benjamin Gooch

Date:: 1758

Credit: Cases and practical remarks in surgery. With sketches of machines, of simple construction, easy application, and approved use / [Benjamin Gooch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$An uncommon cafe of a fracture of the fcull. June the 24th, 1749. MR. J. E. of T. aged about thirty, came to my houfe when I hap¬ pened to be from home, and afked a gen¬ tleman who lived with me, to drefs a fmall wound which he had received in the mid¬ dle of his forehead, without faying how it happened; and a plafter was accord¬ ingly applied, without examining the wound, it appearing fo very flight. I was called to him three days after, and found him in a Stupor, attended with other threatening fymptoms. Upon exa¬ mining the wound, which was indeed very trifling in its external appearance, my probe pafled, without any refiftance, into the brain more than two inches, at the ex¬ tremity of which, I was fenfible of fome folid body, and took it to be a fragment of the internal table of the fcull, after having been informed that the accident hap¬ pened, by the breech-pin of a gun, when$