Two Cases of Compound Depressed Fracture of the Skull—Recovery
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common interest, they are thought to be of sufficient importance to merit description together. In that first to be described, the patient wns abov of ten who some four days after the receipt of his injury was brought in from a neighbouring village, some eight or ten miles off, for treatment. His case is of especial interest on account of its being one of an injury to the Rolatidic area, which, though resulting primarily in complete hemiplegia, was all but totally recovered from in spite of considerable damage to the brain in the region specified, and even loss of brain matter in that portion of the motor area which is responsible for the movements of the wrist, fin<rers and thumb. On July 8th, 1899, Fazal Din, a bojT, aged ten,
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