Depressed Comminuted Fracture of the Skull; Trephining; Recovery
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on the 10th April 1879, in a state of insensibility, with an injury to the head. The following day, while passing through Kashipore in medical charge of a detachment of British Troops, I was asked by the Assistant-Surgeon of the hospital to see the case ; he told me he suspected fracture of the skull. The history of the patient is as follows :?two hours prior to her reception into hospital, the woman had an altercation with her husband, who struck her with a
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