Observations on the nature and consequences of wounds and contusions of the head, fractures of the skull, concussions of the brain, etc / [Percivall Pott].

  • Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788.
Date:
1760
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Credit: Observations on the nature and consequences of wounds and contusions of the head, fractures of the skull, concussions of the brain, etc / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *78 ) again repeat, that it does not appear to me to be a matter of fo much in¬ difference, as it is by fome faid to be. Wounds of the membranes of the brain, by whatever body, or in whatever manner indicted, have al¬ ways been regarded as hazardous; and, which is more to the purpofe, have always been found fo: it is indeed in fome rneafure true, that a iimple diviiion of them, by a cut¬ ting inftrument, is lefs dangerous than a wound made by a piece of bene, or any rough body, which tears, or bruifes; yet this relates only to the manner of the divifion; the parts divided are the fame in both, and the external air is equally let in upon the brain immediately, or upon a membrane of fo delicate ffrudure, that it is next to impof- fible that it fhould not flough, and leave the brain bare, which in thefe cafes