Cases in surgery : with introductions, operations and remarks / by Joseph Warner, F.R.S. and senior surgeon to Guy's Hospital.

  • Warner, Joseph, 1717-1801.
Date:
1784
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Credit: Cases in surgery : with introductions, operations and remarks / by Joseph Warner, F.R.S. and senior surgeon to Guy's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fubfequent cafes of fractures of the Scull* and concuffions of the brain; that by thefe means, the defcriptions which I have given of the nature of the accidents y their confe- quences ; and the methods prefcribed for re? Jlef, might be well underflood by thofe who are not already perfectly verfed in the anatomy §f thefe oarts. CASE I. Xjf a fratlured Scull with a Wound of the. Longitudinal Sinus, IT is a maxim with almoft all writers in Surgery, to fpeak of the impropriety and changer of the application of the trepan, up- on certain parts of the cranium, previoufly to. a. defcription of the operation* The parts o£ the Scull which are looked upon as improper, for the admiffion of the inftrument, are the futures in general; the fagittal future in par- ticular ; the whole of the os occipitis, and the. anterior, and inferior part of the osfrontis. But notwithftanding it may be right to have a, general regard to thefe Rules, yet there are inftances where they cannot take place but by wholly neglecting the operation.