A practical treatise on injuries of the head / Edward Bewley.

  • Bewley, Edward
Date:
1831
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on injuries of the head / Edward Bewley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

    25/140 (page 13)
    immediate vicmity of the wound, where it is of a deep red colour, unmixed with the yellow hue which characterizes erysipelas. It is very tense and extremely painful to the touch. I„ Lnei^] the ears and eye-lids are not comprehended ln take oH^' ''''T'^ -times pa^ take of the general inflammation of the skin which occasionally attends those injuries. ' J7. Ibe constitutional symptoms are usually extremely violent. Acute pain in the head, hot 1:. r''^*'' «™essive thirst, consti- pated bowels, high-coloured urine, restlessness total want of sleep, very frequently deSm with all the other symptoms of high inflammato; fever, are the almost constant attendants on punc- tured wounds penetrating the aponeurosis of the occipito-frontalis muscle. If the cause of tl,l symptoms be not suspected, o. he p ope. t eat' ment not adopted, the patient's life is nlacedtn the most imminent danger from the eon't nuance of the fever ; or, if he should fortunately escane a fatal termination of hiq tsnffori„„^ *i, ^f'-ape aponeurosis and periciir^ b! 'ome'slo;;^** abscesses will be produced, and the cae itS^ both tedious and troublesome. 'encleied fe.^^-j^?'*'-'''™ ^ee patients, under the<=e formidable circumstances, ordered hy the r S geons to have wai-m fomentations and emoUien: simplest and most efficient m^^L the patient are entirely forgotLn ! '^ ^9. The mere enlare-ement of ih^ i , a simple incision down^o:L\l;;fri':fc'h^^