A Series of Cases of Compound Depressed Fracture of the Skull

-Lue following cases were all treated in the Rangoon General Hospital during the last two yeais, and were, with two exceptions, entirely under the care of Capt. 0. Duer, F.it.c.s., and myself. A perusal of the above cases will show that the injuries to the skull varied greatly in severity, but there was no case in which the injury was not of a grave nature. Out of these twenty-six cases, seventeen recovered and nine died, the percentage of recoveries being G5'4 and of the deaths 34*6. Out of these nine cases that died, the injuries in two (cases 12 and 22) were so severe, as almost to preclude any chance of recovery. They were the result of murderous attacks, and the injury to the skull was the result of repeated blows with