On middle meningeal haemorrhage / by W.H.A. Jacobson.

  • Jacobson, Walter Hamilton Acland, (1847-1924)
Date:
[1885?]
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Credit: On middle meningeal haemorrhage / by W.H.A. Jacobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Bepnntedfrom Vol. XLIII of' Guy's Hospital Reports.'} ON MIDDLE MENINGEAL KM By W. H. a. JACOBSON. The writer trusts tliat a paper on tlie above subject will be thouglit not unsuited to these 'Reports/ on account of its importance; from the fact tbat it was in these ' Reports' that ]SIr. Cock published, forty-three years ago/ one of the few successful cases which are on record; and that, however far from exhaustive this paper may be. Hospital Reports would seem a fitting place for a collection of cases of an injury which while occurring in all ranks of life, must chiefly be met with, and if obscure, be elucidated from hospital practice. While the importance^ of the subject is shown abundantly by the frequency with which it is overlooked, the apparent slightness of the violence which sometimes precedes so fatal an accident, and the rapidity and suddenness with which death often supervenes, the writer ventures to consider the usual text-book teaching insufficient and misleading, for the follow- ing reason especially. According to many of these the sym- ptoms of compression of the brain by middle meningeal extravasation are clear and definite, and the diagnosis easy. ' ' Guy's Hosp. Rep.,' 1842, vol. vii, p. 157. The sequel is in the vol. for 1857, p. 364. * Injuries of the head affecting the brain are difficult of distinction, doubtful in their character, treacherous in their course, and for the most part fatal in their results.—Guthrie, ' Injuries of the Head,' p. 1.