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...

Victor Horsley was intrigued by newly discovered, ancient trepanned skulls, especially those that revealed that the operation was performed on living patients. He examined the man-made openings as an expert on the locus of the primate motor cortex and as a surgeon who had successfully removed parts of the motor cortex to treat Jacksonian epilepsy. He postulated that trepanation originated as a ...

Osteoid osteomas may be treated medically or surgically; both have similar long-term outcomes. Nonetheless, only surgery allows complete excision of the lesion for histological analysis. Excessive removal of surrounding bone may destabilise and weaken the bony structure and predispose it to fractures. We describe a surgical technique using a bone graft trephine to enable precise lesion removal ...