Practical remarks on wounds of the head / [William Dease].

  • Dease, William, 1752?-1798
Date:
1790
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Credit: Practical remarks on wounds of the head / [William Dease]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ! [43 Cranium confidefed abftradiedly produce no immediate Symptoms. 4th. Sometimes in thefe Cafes it happens, that about the eighth Day, or fome Time in the fecond Week, the Patient is feized with irregular Shiver- ings, Fever, &c. which if they fhould con¬ tinue to recur, denote’Matter under the Cra* nium. 5th. It has been thought, that Frac¬ tures attended with Depreffion, always pro¬ duce Stupor. But I have frequently found this not to be the Cafe; and that until the Meninges began to inflame, the Patient had no alarming Complaints. 6th. Limited PreD litre on the Brain does not feem to me to „ produce fuch general EfFedts on the Senfo- rium, as are laid down in Books. In a Cafe where the greater Part of one of the Parietals had been taken away, I ftrove to produce Stupor, by prefling on the dura Mater; but without Effedt. 7th. When Ample, or de~ prefled Fraftures, are immediately followed by lofs of Senfe; Vomiting, or bleeding out oi' the Ears, Nofe and Mouth, Delirium, &c* The-^ Symptoms ari fe from the Effedts of