A clinical lecture delivered to the students of surgery in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, at the conclusion of the winter course for 1827-28. Edinburgh, March 1828 / [George Ballingall].

  • Ballingall George, 1780-1855.
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[1828]
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Credit: A clinical lecture delivered to the students of surgery in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, at the conclusion of the winter course for 1827-28. Edinburgh, March 1828 / [George Ballingall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REVIEW of some of the Surgical Cases which have lately occurred in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh—A Clinical Lecture delivered to the Students of Surgery in that Institution, on Thurs- day, 28th February 1828, by George B allin gall, M. D., F. R. S. E. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon Extraordinary to the King, Regius Professor of Military Sur- gery in the University of Edinburgh, and one of the Surgeons to the Royal Infirmary. Gentlemen, In proceeding to a retrospect of the course, with which I propose to occupy this concluding Lecture, I would, in the first place, solicit your attention to that class of accidents usually comprehended un- der the denomination of “ injuries of the head,” and of which you have seen a considerable number and variety during the present session. These injuries admit of a subdivision into wounds of the scalp, con- cussions of the brain, and fractures of the skull, which latter it has become usual to distinguish, like other fractures, into simple and compound. You are aware that the injuries of this class, even those involving the scalp alone, are not devoid of danger, “ nullum vulnus capitis contemnen- dum est,” is a maxim to which, the more experience that you may acquire, the more readily you will subscribe. Besides many cases of a less interesting nature, you had, in the person of Alexander Chalmers, aged 17, who was brought in from the coun- B