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

  • Bewley, Edward
Date:
1831
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Credit: A practical treatise on injuries of the head / Edward Bewley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o-eons, and is sometimes exhibited by Mr. Colles I m lectures. In this case the injury was m- flicted bv the pike end of a watchman's pole. A few days after the occurrence of such a fracture, „ r.mor of a discoloured appearance takes place m the ™rev eveUd, attended with inflammation. At len/th a^ abscess forms, and healthy matter At lengtn au general, the symptoms, LtatTofthStclSeCare'so ob'scure, as Tea cely to warrant our adopting the only treat- mentthich conld po^-b^ '''™.lv the'ex i pi-' inp- the life of the patient, namely, the extupa S of the contents of the orbit, and removal of ^o'XrtS theXll, met with in mili- :£»aTn:irorb:rnrcom^^^^^^ pics The f fJ^^^y fj almost univei- skull are fatal, because tney d sallv of the compound kind, and a^e tions; frequently it ]^^^^\' . ^ l^iud of more solid osseous plates, fo,.. . V • and sometimes it Quves loi nidus in the diploe, ^ search of ward into the brain itse f, the the surgeon, and subvertmg the theoues ^If^t'ihe majority of case., a leaden ball is