Cases in surgery, gun-shot wounds, plural births / by J. Mason Warren.

  • Warren, Jonathan Mason, 1811-1867.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Cases in surgery, gun-shot wounds, plural births / by J. Mason Warren. 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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    Case I.—Remarkable Tumor over the Os Frontis, containing Air.— .. B., of Manchester, N. H., applied to me for advice, November 3th, 1861. Four years before, he had received a severe blow on :e forehead from a heavy branch of a tree. Great swelling ensued, ;id he was confined to the house for a week or ten days. The celling gradually subsided, leaving, however, a sensation of dull lin in the part, accompanied, from time to time, by soreness and imefaction. In July, 1861, while at work in the hay-field, he was iized with severe headache and other symptoms indicative of cere- ral disturbance. Soon after this attack, a tumor appeared over ill e seat of the original injury, covering nearly the whole forehead, jl'fter a great deal of sujBfering, a discharge of pus took place from (5 left nostril, affording temporary relief. Subsequently, the tumor came tense again, and was opened with a lancet, which gave vent a small quantity of matter; a second operation resulted, as he ys, in the escape of blood only. His sufferings continued to in- tease until the date of his visit to me. At this time they were so cessive, and the constitutional symptoms of such a character, as lead him to the conviction that his case was altogether hopeless, le whole forehead was occupied by an elastic swelling, of the size half of a large orange, partially divided in the centre by a vertical jpression, caused, apparently, by the tendon of the occipito-frontalis iscle. The marginal base of the tumor seemed to be formed by elevation of bone, about an inch high, as if the tumor had been iced out from within the cavity of the cranium, pushing the bone