An Interesting Case of Fracture of the Skull and Injury to the Brain. Ending in Complete Recovery
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was serious. It was an incised wound measuring about 4^ inches in length, which had chipped the bone and caused damage to the brain. On examination of this wound three pieces of bone and about one drachm in weight of brain matter were found at its bottom. The cut was a slanting one. No wound of the dura mater, whence the brain matter might have escaped, could be detected. Owing to the sloping nature of the cut, the dura mater, I believe, might have been slit open underneath the bone and consequently the wound of the dura mater might have escaped detection. Condition on admission.?The patient was conscious and remained so throughout his stay in the dispensary. His pupils were normal, pulse 90 per minute and regular, respiration 24 per minute and regular. There
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