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Catalogue of the Pathological Museum of St. George's Hospital / edited by John W. Ogle and Timothy Holmes.

  • St George's Hospital (London, England). Pathological Museum.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Catalogue of the Pathological Museum of St. George's Hospital / edited by John W. Ogle and Timothy Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    30. Fissure in the Occipital Bone, loading down to the Foramen Magnum ; from the body of James J., aged 13. This boy fell off a donkey, and struck the back part of his head and the sacrum. He was admitted into the Hospital a week after the accident, with inflammation of the membranes of the brain, and severe pain in the back. He died 14 days after admission. Extensive suppuration had taken place between the membranes of the brain and in the left sacro-iliac joint, where the bones were denuded of their cartilage. There was no scalp wound. Post Mortem and Case Book. 184.2. p. 29. 31. A preparation to show separation ^of the coronal suture. The suture is completely separated on the right side and the frac- ture extends across the base of the skull. The preparation was taken from the body of a child two years and a half old, who was run over by a cabriolet, and the head so crushed as to be almost separated into two portions. The child was dead at the time of admission. Presented by CjESAE Hawkins, Esq. 32. Fracture of the Occipital Bone, with separation of part of the left branch of the Lambdoid Suture. This specimen was taken from the body of John C, aged 12, who was admitted on December 27th, 1852, and died on the 12th of the follow- ing month. On post-mortem examination, much blood was found exti-avasated into the cavity of the arachnoid. The fracture of the occipital bone was comminuted, and ran through the course of the lambdoid suture for some extent. In the upper part it will be observed that the teeth of the suture be- longing to the parietal bone are broken olF. The upper loose portion lay somewhat in the position in which it has been pre- served, with its outer edge raised above the level of the rest of the skull. The brain was lacerated. There was no scalp wound. The accident was a fall from a first-floor window. Post Mortem and Case Book. 1853. p. 7. 33. An old Fracture of the Frontal Bone, with depression, firmly united. The depressed portion of bone is as large as a crown piece, and presents a double edge above, like a pair of steps, the fracture having been somewhat comminuted at that part. The external depression is considerable, more than equal to the thickness of the entire skull, and the projection internally, though slighter, is very well marked. The preparation was taken from a subject in the dissecting-room, who had been a convict. Nothing was known about tlie old injury. 34. Fracture of the Base of the Skull, of two months' duration, united, with irregular deposit of new bone in the vicinity of the fracture. A fracture with very slight depression of the internal table, was found commencing on the outer side of the right frontal eminence, whence it was traced along Mie lower border of the frontal bone, Ijehind the external angiilai- process,
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